Senate Roll Call 559, 93rd Congress · December 13, 1973
TO AMEND H.R. 11575, BY SETTING LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE DUTY OFFICERS FROM RANKS OF LIEUTENANT COMMANDER AND MAJOR THROUGH GENERAL AND ADMIRAL.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1974
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.80): Capping the number of active duty military officers restricts personnel budget growth.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (38)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- 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
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (53)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- 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
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (9)
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- William Bart SaxbeDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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