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Senate Roll Call 99, 99th Congress · June 4, 1985

TO AMEND S. 1160 TO PROVIDE AN OVERRIDING, EXCLUSIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE PROGRAMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1986.

21 yea · 78 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 29 nay
Republican2 yea · 49 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Authorizing Strategic Defense Initiative programs expands military defense 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 (21)

Nay (78)

Not voting or present (1)

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