Senate Roll Call 720, 95th Congress · April 10, 1978
TO WAIVE SECTION 303(A) OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT SO THAT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 6782, THE PROPOSED EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL ACT OF 1978, CAN BE CONSIDERED PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An Act to provide emergency assistance to producers of wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Waiving a point of order under the Budget Act is a procedural vote.
Tagged by: keyword:budget resolution
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 (51)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Henry John Heinz III
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
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