Senate Roll Call 915, 95th Congress · August 3, 1978
TO TABLE THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO H.R. 12934, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL 1979 FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE AND THE JUDICIARY. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT WOULD INCREASE THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR POSITIONS IN THE CRIMINAL DIVISION OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
36 yea · 49 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 41 nay
Republican26 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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(0.90): Tabling an amendment that would increase Justice Department funding blocks a spending increase.
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 (38)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (49)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
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