Senate Roll Call 303, 93rd Congress · July 20, 1973
TO PASS S. 440, A BILL TO GOVERN THE USE OF THE ARMED FORCES BY THE PRESIDENT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
War Powers Act
Policy area: Congressional-Presidential relations — 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.90): Restricts executive authority to use armed forces without war declaration.
Tagged by: keyword:armed forces
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 (75)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Alan Cranston
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- James William Fulbright
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Bart Saxbe
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (19)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- James Albertus McClure
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (6)
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
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