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Senate Roll Call 679, 99th Congress · September 27, 1986

TO ADOPT THE MOYNIHAN-HUMPHREY, NH) AMENDMENT TO THE DOLE KS)-BYRD, WV) SUBSTITUTE TO HR 5484, THE ANTI-DRUG ABUSE ACT, TO DECLARE THAT THE SOVIET ACTION IN IMPRISONING AND FALSELY CHARGING NICHOLAS DANILOFF REFLECTS THE FAILURE OF THE SOVIET UNION TO OBSERVE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STANDARDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL CONDUCT AND RAISES PROFOUND DOUBTS ABOUT SOVIET WILLINGNESS TO LIVE UP TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AND COMMITMENTS UNDER ANY INTERNATIONAL OR BILATERAL AGREEMENT; TO URGE THE PRESIDENT TO CONTINUE FORTHRIGHT DEMANDS FOR THE IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF MR. DANILOFF; TO CALL ON THE PRESIDENT TO CONDITION HIS AGREEMENT TO A SUMMIT MEETING WITH SECRETARY GORBACHEV ON THE PROMPT RETURN OF MR. DANILOFF FROM THE SOVIET UNION; TO EXPRESS OPPOSITION TO ANY NEW ECONOMIC OR COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT WITH THE SOVIET UNION, OR ANY NEW TRANSACTIONS UNDER EXISTING ECONOMIC OR COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS WITH THE SOVIET UNION UNTIL MR. DANILOFF HAS BEEN GRANTED UNCONDITIONAL PERMISSION TO DEPART THE SOVIET UNION; AND TO CALL ON THE PRESIDENT TO DEMAND THAT THE SOVIET UNION REMOVE ITS SPIES FROM ITS UNITED STATES MISSION AND FROM THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT AND TO TAKE ALL MEASURES NECESSARY TO BRING AN END TO SUCH DIRECT SOVIET VIOLATIONS (CONTINUED) OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER.

57 yea · 29 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 18 nay
Republican33 yea · 11 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5484

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A sense-of-Congress foreign policy resolution attached to a bill is non-binding and unrelated.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (57)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (14)

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