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Senate Roll Call 605, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO ADOPT THE KERRY AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD TERMINATE AID FOR THE NICARAGUAN "CONTRAS" IF THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA SIGN A CONTADORA AGREEMENT THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF WHICH WERE PUBLICLY ENDORSED IN APRIL, 1986. THE AMENDMENT WOULD PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE "CONTRAS" SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION PROVISIONS OF SUCH AN AGREEMENT.

46 yea · 54 nay
Democrat41 yea · 7 nay
Republican5 yea · 47 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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Terminates military aid to Contras upon execution of a regional peace agreement.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Terminates general Contra aid upon a peace agreement.

    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 (46)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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