Senate Roll Call 601, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO ADOPT A CLOTURE MOTION ON TITLES II AND III OF H.R. 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE $100 MILLION IN AID FOR THE NICARAGUAN "CONTRAS" AND $300 MILLION IN ECONOMIC AID FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES. (THREE FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE.)

62 yea · 37 nay

Democrat15 yea · 33 nay

Republican48 yea · 4 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.90): Advances military aid funding for the Nicaraguan Contras.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Advances an appropriations measure authorizing $400 million in aid.
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 (63)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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