Senate Roll Call 246, 93rd Congress · June 28, 1973
TO AMEND H.R. 8152, A BILL PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE OMNIBUS CRIME CONTROL AND SAFE STREETS ACT, SO AS TO REQUIRE 75% OF BLOCK GRANT FUNDS UNDER PART C OF THE OMNIBUS CRIME CONTROL AND SAFE STREETS ACT TO BE GIVEN DIRECTLY TO THE STATES AND ELIGIBLE UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Crime Control Act of 1973
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.
- Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Reallocating block grant funding formulas between levels of government is administrative and neutral on criminal justice ideology.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Modifying grant distribution formulas among governments does not change overall spending levels.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (25)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (68)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- James William Fulbright
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (7)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- William Bart SaxbeDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Robert Taft Jr.Did not vote
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