Senate Roll Call 191, 95th Congress · June 13, 1977
TO TABLE THE MELCHER AMENDMENT TO S. 1340, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONNUCLEAR PROGRAMS OF THE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978. THE MELCHER AMENDMENT WOULD HAVE INCREASED THE APPROPRIATION FOR RESEARCH IN MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS TO $125 MILLION.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Energy Act of 1978—Civilian Applications
Policy area: Energy — 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(0.95): Tabling an amendment that increases spending cuts spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (44)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (40)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (16)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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