Senate Roll Call 238, 95th Congress · June 24, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 7556, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE AND THE JUDICIARY FOR FISCAL 1978, BY DELETING SECTION 606. SECTION 606 IS A PROVISION THAT HAS THE EFFECT OF NULLIFYING THE PRESIDENT'S AMNESTY PROGRAM FOR VIETNAM-ERA DRAFT RESISTERS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1978
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This is a policy provision regarding draft resisters amnesty, not a spending measure.
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 (39)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (48)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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