Senate Roll Call 786, 96th Congress · June 30, 1980
TO AMEND H.R. 6974, FISCAL 1981 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS, BY INSURING THAT THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RETAINS THE AUTHORITY TO SET FORTH THE CRITERIA AND THE TIMING OF THE FORRESTAL SLEP. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981
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) Retaining DoD administrative flexibility on project criteria does not clearly expand or restrain military scope.
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 (58)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (28)
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Russell Billiu Long
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (14)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
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