Senate Roll Call 568, 95th Congress · October 19, 1977
TO AMEND S. 457, THE BILL TO INCREASE EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS FOR VETERANS, BY LOWERING THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF INCREASE SO AS TO ACCOMODATE FEDERAL PAYMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL TUITION ALLOWANCES FOR VETERANS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to amend section 1662(a) of title 38, United States Code, to extend the delimiting period for completion of education for certain veterans and under certain conditions.
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(0.80): Lowering the percentage increase in educational benefits for veterans reduces overall military spending/benefits.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.80): Accommodating federal payments for supplemental tuition allowances expands the federal role in education funding.
Tagged by: keyword:tuition
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (20)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (75)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- 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
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
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