Senate Roll Call 359, 96th Congress · October 15, 1979
TO AMEND BYRD AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4930, INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS RY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FUEL ASSISTANCE FUNDS TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE COMMUNITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATION. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Providing emergency fuel assistance funds increases 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 (43)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (48)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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