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95th Congress > Senate > Vote 688

Date: March 13, 1978

Result: 53-34

Vote Subject Matter: Foreign and Defense Policy / Defense Policy Resolutions

Sponsor: CHURCH, Frank Forrester (D-ID)

Description: TO TABLE ALLEN AMENDMENT #8 TO THE BYRD (WV) EXECUTIVE AMENDMENT #21 (SEE RC 54) TO THE NEUTRALITY TREATY. AMENDMENT #8 STATES THAT THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE THE SOLE JUDGE OF WHETHER AN "EMERGENCY" EXISTS.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 124-35, p. 3512;

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