Senate Roll Call 892, 96th Congress · August 26, 1980
TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 6974, FISCAL 1981 AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. (MOTION PASSED)
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 expansion”
model(0.95): Adopting defense authorization conference report expands military funding and programs.
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 (81)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- 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
- 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
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (16)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Donald Wilbur StewartDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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