Senate Roll Call 838, 95th Congress · July 11, 1978
TO AMEND S. 2571 BY ADDING TO IT THE TEXT OF H.R. 3702, A HOUSE-PASSED BILL THAT MODIFIES THE SURVIVOR BENEFIT PLAN FOR MILITARY WIDOWS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Modifying survivor benefits for military widows does not directly expand or restrain military forces.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (46)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (46)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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