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Senate Roll Call 596, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO ADOPT THE HARKIN AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING TRAINING AND OTHER SUPPORT FOR FORCES OPPOSED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA.

32 yea · 67 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 20 nay
Republican5 yea · 47 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5052 ↗

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1987

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.95): Adopting an amendment prohibiting US forces from training foreign anti-government forces imposes military restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Prohibiting military training of foreign forces is a foreign policy restraint, not a fiscal budget axis.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (32)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (1)

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