Senate Roll Call 569, 95th Congress · October 19, 1977
TO AMEND S. 457 BY PROVIDING THAT VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS THAT WERE DISCHARGED BETWEEN AUGUST 4, 1964 AND DECEMBER 31, 1969 SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A TWO YEAR EXTENSION OF THE TEN YEAR ELIGIBILITY PERIOD FOR EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS.
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 expansion”
model(0.85): Extending the eligibility window for veterans educational benefits expands support for military personnel.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (43)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (53)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
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