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Senate Roll Call 880, 95th Congress · July 25, 1978

TO MODIFY THE SPARKMAN AMENDMENT TO S. 3075, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979. THE MODIFYING BYRD (WV AMENDMENT OUTLINES U.S. POLICIES TOWARDS CYPRUS, GREECE AND TURKEY IN THE EVENT OF LIFTING THE ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST TURKEY. THE SPARKMAN AMENDMENT REPEALS THE LIMITED EMBARGO ON ARMS SALES TO TURKEY.

57 yea · 42 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 32 nay
Republican27 yea · 10 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3075

International Security Assistance Act of 1978

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 (0.95) Outlining foreign policy relative to arms embargoes does not move along a fiscal spending 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 (57)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (1)

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