Senate Roll Call 773, 95th Congress · April 26, 1978
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 80 BY REDUCING THE BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE BY $2.1 BILLION IN ORDER TO ACCOUNT FOR ONE-THIRD OF THE FUNDS ADMITTEDLY MISSPENT BY HEW DURING FISCAL YEAR 1977.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the U.S. Government for the fiscal year 1979.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing HEW budget authority by $2.1 billion is a spending cut.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (38)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (57)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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