Senate Roll Call 794, 96th Congress · July 1, 1980
TO TABLE WALLOP AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6974 THAT INCREASED FUNDS FOR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SPACE-BASED LASER (CONTINUED) ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 34
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(0.90): Tabling an amendment that increased space-based laser missile defense funding cuts military 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 (52)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (39)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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