Senate Roll Call 603, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986
TO TABLE THE BIDEN, DE) AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT USE OF FUNDS IN THE BILL FOR AID TO THE NICARAGUAN "CONTRAS" SHOULD BE PROHIBITED UNTIL THE ADMINISTRATION BEGINS DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA.
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(0.85): Tabling kills a restriction delaying Contra aid until negotiations begin.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Non-binding sense of Congress amendment.
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 (54)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- James Thomas Broyhill
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (45)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (1)
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
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