Senate Roll Call 516, 96th Congress · January 24, 1980
TO TABLE CRANSTON AMENDMENT TO S 870, VETERANS' AMENDMENTS, THAT REQUIRED THE SECRETARY OF HEW TO STUDY AND REPORT TO THE CONGRESS ON THE LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS IN VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS OF EXPOSURE TO AGENT ORANGE. (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 (0.90) Health studies on Agent Orange exposure for veterans do not alter military force projection.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
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
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (59)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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