Senate Roll Call 82, 96th Congress · May 7, 1979
TO TABLE THE MODIFIED THURMOND AMENDMENT TO S. 440, A BILL AUTHORIZING FUNDS THROUGH FISCAL 1982 FOR A PROGRAM TO AID IN THE PREVENTION AND SPREAD OF ALCOHOLISM. THE THURMOND AMENDMENT REQUIRES A HEALTH WARNING ON THE LABELS OF BOTTLES CONTAINING CERTAIN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1979
Policy area: Health — 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Alcohol health warning labels do not directly relate to health care coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (21)
- Max Baucus
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Ralph Sasser
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (68)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (11)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
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