Senate Roll Call 83, 99th Congress · May 20, 1985
TO AMEND S 1160, A BILL MAKING DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATIONS FOR FISCAL 1986, TO LIMIT EMPLOYMENT OF DEFENSE PROCUREMENT PERSONNEL BY DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, AND TO REQUIRE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION FOR CONTRACTS FOR WHICH THERE WAS ONLY ONE BID.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986
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(0.80): Adding restrictions and congressional authorization requirements places restraint on military procurement.
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 (23)
- Max Baucus
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
Nay (67)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (10)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Alan John DixonDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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