Senate Roll Call 597, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO ADOPT THE PELL AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE COMPENSATION FOR NONCOMBANTANT VICTIMS OF ANTI-SANDINISTA FORCES BY ESTABLISHING A $10 MILLION FUND AND A BIPARTISAN COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE CLAIMS AND MAKE AWARDS.

17 yea · 82 nay1 not voting or present

Democrat16 yea · 31 nay

Republican1 yea · 51 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Creating a victim compensation fund is a humanitarian measure rather than direct military expansion or restraint.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Creating a new $10 million compensation fund authorizes additional federal spending.
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 (17)

Nay (82)

Not voting or present (1)

John Cornelius StennisDid not vote

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