Senate Roll Call 387, 96th Congress · November 6, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 5359, DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, BY ALLOWING MONEY TO BE SET ASIDE FOR SURPLUS LABOR AREAS IN NONSTRATEGIC PROCUREMENT. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1980
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Setting aside nonstrategic procurement funds for surplus labor areas does not alter military posture.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Allocating procurement funds to surplus labor areas is a spending reallocation rather than fiscal expansion.
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 (30)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (59)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- 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
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (11)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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