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Senate Roll Call 79, 96th Congress · May 3, 1979

TO AMEND THE HEINZ AMENDMENT TO S. 429 (SEE RC 77). THE WARNER AMENDMENT PERMITS THE SLEP PROGRAM TO BE CONDUCTED NOT ON THE BASIS OF LEAST COST IF THE PRESIDENT DETERMINES THAT THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST REQUIRES OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 6

41 yea · 50 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat15 yea · 39 nay
Republican26 yea · 12 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 429 ↗

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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.80): Allowing national interest exceptions to exceed least-cost limits supports increased military program spending.

    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 (42)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (7)

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