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Senate Roll Call 96, 99th Congress · May 24, 1985

TO AMEND S. 1160 TO BAR THE TESTING OF THE ANTI-SATELLITE MISSILE AGAINST A TARGET IN SPACE UNLESS THE SOVIET UNION TESTS SUCH A MISSILE OR THE PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS THAT TESTING IS REQUIRED FOR NATIONAL SECURITY REASONS.

74 yea · 9 nay16 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 2 nay
Republican37 yea · 7 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.95): Barring anti-satellite missile tests restricts military weapons development.

    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 (75)

Nay (9)

Not voting or present (16)

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