Senate Roll Call 297, 95th Congress · July 18, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 7933, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL 1978, BY REDUCING THE APPROPRIATION FOR AIR FORCE PROCUREMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION NOT TO PROCURE THE B-1 BOMBER.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense 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): Cuts Air Force procurement funding following the decision not to procure the B-1 bomber.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Cuts defense spending by reducing Air Force procurement appropriations.
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 (59)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Little McClellan
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (36)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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