Senate Roll Call 822, 95th Congress · June 28, 1978
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO S. 3076, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY, AND THE BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING. THE HELMS AMENDMENT WOULD LIFT U.S. SANCTIONS AGANIST RHODESIA UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30, 1979.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Foreign Relations Authorization Act
Policy area: International Affairs — 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) Lifting foreign sanctions on Rhodesia is unrelated to the fiscal axis.
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 (48)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (43)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (9)
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Paul Gerhart HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
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