Senate Roll Call 941, 95th Congress · August 9, 1978
TO AMEND H.R. 13125, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979. THE MELCHER AMENDMENT APPROPRIATES $20 MILLION TO CARRY OUT ANIMAL HEALTH AND DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAMS.
68 yea · 23 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 12 nay
Republican24 yea · 10 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 expansion”
model(0.95): Appropriating $20 million for research programs increases spending.
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 (69)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (23)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- James Ralph Sasser
- William Lloyd Scott
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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