Senate Roll Call 90, 99th Congress · May 22, 1985

TO AMEND S. 1160 TO PROMOTE AN INTERNATIONAL BAN ON THE PRODUCTION AND STOCKPILING OF LETHAL BINARY CHEMICAL WEAPONS

46 yea · 50 nay4 not voting or present

Democrat32 yea · 14 nay

Republican14 yea · 36 nay

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(0.95): Promoting an international ban on chemical weapons restrains military capabilities.
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 (46)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (4)

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