Senate Roll Call 1079, 95th Congress · October 4, 1978
TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 12930, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE AND THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1979
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 expansion”
model(0.95): Agreeing to an appropriations conference report authorizes federal spending.
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 (72)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- 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.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (20)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (8)
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Paul Gerhart HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
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