Senate Roll Call 196, 96th Congress · July 20, 1979
TO TABLE TSONGAS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4389 THAT DEALT WITH THE BUSING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act, 1980
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 (0.90) This is a policy vote on school busing, not fiscal spending.
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 (58)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (36)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- 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
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (6)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
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