Senate Roll Call 26, 96th Congress · March 27, 1979
TO TABLE THE MODIFIED MOYNIHAN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2534. THE MOYNIHAN AMENDMENT REQUIRES THAT DURING CONSIDERATION OF BALANCING THE BUDGET, CONSIDERATION BE GIVEN TO THE IMPACT OF EQUAL PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE LEVELS. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit, and for other purposes.
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 (0.85) Tabling a policy instruction on budget formula calculations is procedural.
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 (69)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (28)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- William Warren Bradley
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (3)
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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