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Senate Roll Call 91, 99th Congress · May 23, 1985

TO AMEND S. 1160 TO STRIKE SECTION 722 OF THE BILL IN ORDER TO LIMIT AUTHORITY TO CLOSE AND REALIGN MILITARY BASES.

41 yea · 58 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 10 nay
Republican3 yea · 48 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1160 ↗

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 (0.85) Limiting base closure authority involves domestic facility rules rather than direct military expansion or restraint.

    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 (41)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (1)

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