Senate Roll Call 88, 96th Congress · May 10, 1979
TO TABLE THE THURMOND AMENDMENT TO S. 586, A BILL AUTHORIZING FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. THE THURMOND AMENDMENT REDUCES AUTHORIZATION LEVEL FOR FUNDING OF IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROGRAMS BY $71.5 MILLION. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1980 and 1981
Policy area: International Affairs — 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.
- ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Expansive”
model(0.90): Tabling funding cuts preserves higher funding levels for immigration and refugee programs.
Tagged by: keyword:immigration,refugee
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (58)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (33)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
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