Senate Roll Call 80, 96th Congress · May 3, 1979
TO AMEND S. 429 BY REDUCING THE AUTHORIZATION OF FISCAL 1979 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NAVY SHIP PROCUREMENT TO DELETE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR TWO OF THE FOUR IRANIAN (CONTINUED) DESTROYERS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 6
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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.90): Deleting funding for Navy destroyer procurement reduces military expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.90): Reducing spending authorizations for Navy ships represents fiscal restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (33)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- J. James Exon
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (56)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (11)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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