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Senate Roll Call 599, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO ADOPT A CLOTURE MOTION ON TITLES II AND III OF HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE $100 MILLION IN AID FOR THE NICARAGUAN "CONTRAS" AND $300 MILLION IN ECONOMIC AID TO CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES. THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE MOTION FAILED.

59 yea · 40 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 34 nay
Republican46 yea · 6 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Voting for cloture advances legislation providing military aid to Contra guerrillas.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Voting for cloture advances foreign aid appropriations, promoting fiscal spending expansion.

    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 (59)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (1)

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