Senate Roll Call 147, 96th Congress · June 26, 1979
TO TABLE THE JEPSEN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4289 THAT WOULD FACILITATE COMPLIANCE BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE OF THE 1979 APPROPRIATIONS ACT RELATIVE TO REDUCING BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE. (MOTION FAILED)
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 expansion”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment meant to reduce waste and fraud blocks 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 (36)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (55)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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