What was Chuck Schumer’s full voting record on the Drug Enforcement Act (S.2850) in 1986?
Executive summary
Chuck Schumer’s direct, line-by-line roll-call vote on S.2850, the Senate’s "Drug Enforcement Act of 1986," is not documented in the materials provided; available reporting notes the existence of S.2850 and records Schumer’s contemporaneous public comments about the broader 1986 anti‑drug legislation, but does not supply a House roll‑call showing how he personally voted on S.2850 or any companion measure [1] [2].
1. What S.2850 was — the Senate Republican bill in 1986
The legislative item labeled S.2850 in the 99th Congress is identified as the "Drug Enforcement Act of 1986," a Senate bill that, among other provisions, would have directed the Treasury Secretary to instruct U.S. Executive Directors at multilateral development banks to vote against loans benefiting major illicit drug‑producing countries; the Library of Congress summary confirms S.2850’s existence and describes that Treasury/International finance provision [1].
2. How the 1986 anti‑drug package was framed in contemporaneous reporting
Contemporaneous commentary and retrospective summaries characterize the 1986 package as a fast‑moving, high‑profile anti‑drug push in Congress in which multiple bills — including the Republican Senate bill S.2850 and Democratic alternatives such as S.2798 — circulated alongside companion House measures; one synthesis of that legislative landscape explicitly notes S.2850 as the Senate Republican bill and S.2798 as the Senate Democratic bill [2].
3. What the provided reporting says about Charles (Chuck) Schumer
The supplied reporting quotes Representative Charles Schumer (D‑NY) reflecting on the rapid passage of the 1986 anti‑drug measures and framing the crisis as a youth‑demand problem that required education and swift action; the Congress Project material reproduces two Schumer quotations in which he says the process moved in “one seismic jump” and emphasizes educating young people as part of the response, demonstrating his public engagement with the policy debate at the time [2].
4. The limits of the record supplied here on Schumer’s roll‑call votes
None of the provided sources includes a House or Senate roll‑call entry showing how Charles Schumer voted on S.2850 specifically, and the Library of Congress summary for S.2850 does not list individual House member votes; therefore a statement purporting to be Schumer’s “full voting record on S.2850” cannot be supported from these documents alone [1] [2].
5. Alternative interpretations and next steps for definitive proof
There are two plausible explanations consistent with the supplied material: Schumer, then a House member, may not have been on a formal roll call for S.2850 (a Senate bill) but did participate publicly in debate about the broader anti‑drug package, or any House votes relevant to a companion measure were recorded elsewhere; the present reporting does not resolve which is the case, so confirming his specific votes requires consulting primary roll‑call archives such as the House Clerk’s roll calls or the Congressional Record for 1986 (this recommendation is methodological and not supported by the supplied snippets, which lack roll‑call data) [1] [2].
6. Bottom line: what can and cannot be asserted from the supplied sources
From the documents at hand it can be asserted that S.2850 existed as the Senate Republican "Drug Enforcement Act of 1986" and that Representative Charles Schumer publicly commented on the haste and rationale of the anti‑drug legislative wave in 1986, but it cannot be asserted — based on these sources — how Schumer voted on S.2850 or any exact roll‑call related to that Senate bill; establishing his full voting record on S.2850 therefore requires consulting detailed roll‑call records not included in the provided reporting [1] [2].