Senate Roll Call 792, 96th Congress · July 1, 1980
TO TABLE LEVIN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6974, FISCAL 1981 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, THAT RESTORED THE ARMY'S AUTHORIZED END STRENGTH IN FISCAL 1981. THIS AMENDMENT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY WITHDRAWN. (MOTION FAILED)
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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment to restore Army personnel strength prevents military troop expansion.
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 (22)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Jesse Helms
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (71)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- 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
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (7)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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