Senate Roll Call 511, 96th Congress · January 23, 1980
TO AMEND S. 870, A BILL AMENDING EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ADMINISTERED BY THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION, BY PRESCRIBING THE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE ALLOWANCE OF A VETERAN WHO IS IN PRISON. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
G I Bill Amendments Act of 1979
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 (0.95) Adjusting veteran prison education benefits does not affect military force or expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Text states prescribing allowances without specifying whether it restricts or expands benefits.
Tagged by: keyword:prison
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (28)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (66)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (6)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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