Senate Roll Call 257, 95th Congress · June 29, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 7589, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, BY REDUCING THE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE LEVELS CITED BY THE PRESIDENT IN HIS MOST RECENT BUDGET REQUEST.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1978
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(0.95): Reducing military construction appropriations represents military restraint.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing appropriations 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 (34)
- James George Abourezk
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (64)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (2)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
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