Senate Roll Call 670, 99th Congress · September 24, 1986

TO ADOPT THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO HR 4759, THE INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION BILL, WHICH WOULD DIRECT THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, NOT LATER THAN MARCH 1, 1987, WHETHER AND TO WHAT EXTENT THE DEFENSE FORCES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF PANAMA HAVE VIOLATED THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PANAMANIAN PEOPLE, ARE INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING, OR MONEY LAUNDERING, OR WERE INVOLVED IN THE DEATH OF DR. HUGO SPADAFORA.

53 yea · 46 nay1 not voting or present

Democrat14 yea · 34 nay

Republican39 yea · 12 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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 (0.80) Requiring an intelligence report on foreign military human rights does not move the US military axis.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote

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