Senate Roll Call 604, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO TABLE THE BYRD, WV) AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD ALLOCATE $450,000 IN SUPPORT OF THE NICARAGUAN NEWSPAPER LA PRENSA.

57 yea · 43 nay

Democrat8 yea · 40 nay

Republican49 yea · 3 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) Funding for a foreign newspaper is not a military or war powers issue.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling kills an amendment allocating additional 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 (57)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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