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Senate Roll Call 608, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO TABLE THE HARKIN, IA) AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF ONE-HALF OF THE $100 MILLION IN AID INTENDED FOR THE NICARAGUAN "CONTRAS" TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO FARMERS AND RANCHERS IN THE UNITED STATES IN AREAS AFFECTED BY DROUGHT AND EXCESS PRECIPATATION.

58 yea · 41 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 35 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(0.90): Tabling kills a proposal to redirect $50 million away from Contra military aid.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Net-neutral transfer of funds between foreign aid and domestic farm relief.

    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 (58)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (1)

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