DPC Vote Database ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote No. 13 SR 345 02/19/86 CQ Admin: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippine Elections (S. Res. 345) Adoption. Resolution Agreed to (85-9) Yeas (85) Democrats (42 or 98%) Baucus, Bentsen, Biden, Bingaman, Boren, Bradley, Bumpers, Burdick, Byrd, Chiles, Cranston, DeConcini, Dixon, Dodd, Eagleton, Ford, Gore, Harkin, Hart, Hollings, Johnston, Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Long, Matsunaga, Metzenbaum, Mitchell, Moynihan, Nunn, Pell, Proxmire, Pryor, Riegle, Rockefeller, Sarbanes, Sasser, Simon, Stennis, Zorinsky Republicans (43 or 84%) Abdnor, Andrews, Armstrong, Boschwitz, Chafee, Cochran, Cohen, D'Amato, Danforth, Dole, Domenici, Evans, Garn, Gorton, Gramm, Grassley, Hatch, Hatfield, Hawkins, Heinz, Humphrey, Kassebaum, Kasten, Laxalt, Lugar, Mattingly, McClure, McConnell, Murkowski, Nickles, Packwood, Pressler, Quayle, Roth, Rudman, Simpson, Specter, Stafford, Stevens, Trible, Warner, Weicker, Wilson Nays (9) Democrats (1 or 2%) Melcher Republicans (8 or 16%) Denton, East, Goldwater, Hecht, Helms, Symms, Thurmond, Wallop Not Voting (5) Democrats (3) <strong>Exon</strong>-3AY, Glenn-2AY, Inouye-4 Republicans (2) Durenberger-2AY, Mathias-1 Voting Present (1) Heflin (D) Office Note (no text) Description Adoption of the Dole-Byrd, et al, resolution expressing the
sense of the Senate that: America's interests are best served in the Philippines by a government which has a popular mandate; the February 7, <strong>1986</strong>, presidential and vice presidential elections in the Philippines were marked by such widespread fraud that they cannot be considered a fair reflection of the will of the people; and the Senate requests that the President of the U.S. personally convey this concern to President Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino of the Philippines.