Senate Roll Call 420, 93rd Congress · September 27, 1973
TO AMEND SEN. HUMPHREY'S AMENDMENT TO H.R. 9286 SO AS TO REDUCE BY 40,000 THE NUMBER OF U.S. TROOPS ON DUTY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, SUCH REDUCTION TO BE COMPLETED NOT LATER THAN JUNE 30, 1974, AND TO REMOVE TIME LIMIT FOR REDUCTION OF REMAINDER OF TROOPS. (SEE VAR. 431.)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1974
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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.85): Scaling back troop cuts and removing deadlines maintains higher foreign troop levels.
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 (36)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- James Oliver Eastland
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Henry Martin Jackson
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (53)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- 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
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William Bart Saxbe
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (11)
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.Did not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Robert Taft Jr.Did not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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