Senate Roll Call 326, 96th Congress · October 1, 1979
TO TABLE THE MELCHER AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 402, CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, THAT WOULD INSURE EQUITABLE CONTINUED RAIL PASSENGER SERVICE IN THE U.S. ON THE AMTRAK SYSTEM ON CERTAIN ROUTES. (MOTION PASSED)
51 yea · 35 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 22 nay
Republican23 yea · 13 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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(0.85): Tabling an amendment to continue Amtrak service blocks additional rail spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (53)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (35)
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (12)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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