Senate Roll Call 401, 96th Congress · November 13, 1979
TO PASS H.R. 4391, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL 1980 AND PROVIDING THAT NO FUNDS BE USED WHICH WOULD COMMIT THE UNITED STATES TO ONLY ONE BASING MODE FOR THE MX MISSILE SYSTEM. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Military Construction 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.95): Passing military construction appropriations expands military facilities and infrastructure.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passing military construction appropriations expands federal 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 (92)
- 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
- William Warren Bradley
- 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
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- 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
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (6)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
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