Senate Roll Call 723, 95th Congress · April 10, 1978
TO TABLE HATCH AMENDMENT #38 TO THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY. AMENDMENT #38 STATES THAT THE OPERATING REVENUES OF THE PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE U.S. TREASURY AND THAT THE REIMBURSEMENT OF PANAMA SHALL THEN BE SUBJECT TO THE APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS.
54 yea · 29 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 11 nay
Republican12 yea · 21 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that subjects canal operating revenues to congressional appropriations limits fiscal control.
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)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- 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.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (33)
- James Browning Allen
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
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