Senate Roll Call 133, 96th Congress · June 18, 1979
TO AMEND S. 1039, THE VA HEALTH RESOURCES AND PROGRAM EXTENSION ACT, BY DELETING PROVISIONS IN TITLE II AMENDING EXISTING LAW WITH RESPECT TO TRAVEL EXPENSES, DENTAL CARE, AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICINE AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Veterans Administration Health Resources and Programs Extension Act of 1979
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) VA health benefits do not move along the military expansion or restraint axis.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (41)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
Nay (52)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
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