Senate Roll Call 819, 93rd Congress · June 6, 1974
TO AMEND S.3000 BY REDUCING BY 76,000 THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL AND LIMITING TO 361,000 THE NUMBER OF SUCH PERSONNEL TO BE ASSIGNED OUTSIDE THE U.S., EFFECTIVE DEC. 31, 1975.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act
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 restraint”
model(0.95): Voting yes reduces active duty military personnel and caps overseas troop placement.
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 (45)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- 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
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (47)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- 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
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (9)
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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