Senate Roll Call 810, 94th Congress · May 26, 1976
TO TABLE THE TAFT AMENDMENT TO H.R. 12438. THE TAFT AMENDMENT AUTHORIZES THE PRESIDENT TO USE FUNDS TO PROCURE B-1 BOMBER AIRCRAFT PRIOR TO FEB. 1, 1977, IF HE DETERMINES THAT PRODUCTION OF SUCH AIRCRAFT WILL IMPROVE CHANCES FOR SUCCESSFUL SALT NEGOTIATIONS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1977
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(0.90): Tabling kills an amendment authorizing B-1 bomber procurement, resulting in military restraint.
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 (48)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (33)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Robert Burren Morgan
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (19)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Hiram Leong FongDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.Did not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
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