Senate Roll Call 819, 95th Congress · June 27, 1978
TO TABLE THE MCCLURE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 12930. THE MCCLURE AMENDMENT REDUCES THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS TO THE HOUSE-PASSED FIGURE.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 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 expansion”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that cut appropriations prevents a spending reduction.
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 (31)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Dale Bumpers
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (61)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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