Senate Roll Call 145, 96th Congress · June 25, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 4289 BY REDUCING FUNDS FOR THE FOOD STAMP (CONTINUED) PROGRAM. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 10
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1979
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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing funds for food stamps is a spending cut.
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 (22)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (67)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (11)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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