Senate Roll Call 87, 99th Congress · May 21, 1985
TO AMEND S. 1160 TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET UNION SHOULD MEET AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL TIME FOLLOWING THOROUGH PREPARATION TO DISCUSS MAJOR ISSUES IN U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS AND TO WORK FOR THE REALIZATION OF MUTUAL, EQUITABLE AND VERIFIABLE REDUCTIONS IN NUCLEAR ARMS.
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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Expressing the sense of the Senate is a non-binding resolution.
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 (84)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (10)
Not voting or present (6)
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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