Senate Roll Call 823, 93rd Congress · June 7, 1974
TO AMEND S.3000 BY REQUIRING QUARTERLY DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORTS TO JUSTIFY CONTRACTS ABOVE $2500 LET WITHOUT COMPETITIVE BIDDING, AND AUTHORIZING A GAO STUDY AND REPORT ON DEFENSE PROCUREMENT WITH A VIEW TO DETERMINE HOW COMPETITIVE BIDDING THROUGH FORMAL ADVERTISING CAN BE INCREASED.
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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Requiring procurement reports and a GAO study is floor oversight and administrative procedure.
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 (30)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Alan Cranston
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (31)
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (40)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Emerson Brock IIIDid not vote
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.Did not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Edward John GurneyDid not vote
- Clifford Peter HansenDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Harold Everett HughesDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- John Orlando PastoreDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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