Senate Roll Call 1137, 93rd Congress · December 19, 1974
TO TABLE THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 1728, INCREASING MONTHLY BENEFITS PROVIDED TO AMERICAN CIVILIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to increase benefits provided to American civilian internees in Southeast Asia.
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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Benefits for civilian POWs do not clearly align with military expansion or restraint.
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 (51)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (37)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Edward John Gurney
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Varick Tunney
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (12)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- William Emerson Brock IIIDid not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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