Senate Roll Call 256, 95th Congress · June 29, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 7558, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR FISCAL 1978, BY LIMITING THE FEDERAL PAYMENT TO ANY ONE SUGAR PRODUCER TO $50,000.
54 yea · 44 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 38 nay
Republican31 yea · 6 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
No bill title on file from congress.gov for this measure.
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): Limiting federal subsidies to individual sugar producers reduces 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 (54)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Edward William Brooke III
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (2)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
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