Senate Roll Call 929, 95th Congress · August 7, 1978
TO AMEND H.R. 12936 BY REDUCING BY 2% ALL APPROPRIATIONS CONTAINED IN THE BILL EXCEPT FOR THE FUNDING REQUIRED BY LAW.
30 yea · 55 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 42 nay
Republican16 yea · 16 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(0.95): Reducing appropriations across the bill by 2 percent enforces fiscal restraint.
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 (30)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (58)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- 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
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (12)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Paul Gerhart HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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