Senate Roll Call 1005, 96th Congress · December 3, 1980

TO TABLE HELMS AMENDMENT TO WEICKER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7584, STATE-JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONS, THAT PROVIDED THAT NOTHING IN THE ACT SHALL BE INTERPRETED TO LIMIT IN ANY MANNER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN ENFORCING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION NOR SHALL ANYTHING IN THE ACT BE INTERPRETED TO MODIFY OR DIMINSH THE AUTHORITY OF THE COURTS TO ENFORCE FULLY THE (CONTINUED) CONSTITUTION. THE HELMS AMENDMENT EXCEPTED SECTION 607, REFERRING TO COURT ORDERED BUSING. (MOTION PASSED)

45 yea · 44 nay10 not voting or present

Democrat29 yea · 22 nay

Republican16 yea · 22 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7584 ↗

Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1981

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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) Tabling an amendment on court-ordered busing is a social policy vote.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (45)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (10)

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