Senate Roll Call 78, 96th Congress · May 3, 1979
TO TABLE THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH THE BIDEN AMENDMENT TO THE HEINZ AMENDMENT TO S. 429 WAS AGREED TO (SEE RC 77). THE BIDEN AMENDMENT (ADOPTED BY VOICE VOTE) REQUIRES THAT THE SERVICE LIFE EXTENSION PROGRAM FOR THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER SARATOGA BE CONDUCTED AT THE LOCATION DETERMINED LEAST EXPENSIVE TO THE GOVERNMENT. (MOTION PASSE
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to authorize supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and naval vessels for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
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) Tabling a motion to reconsider a procedural amendment is floor procedure.
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 (53)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (39)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
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