Senate Roll Call 960, 96th Congress · September 26, 1980
TO DETERMINE IF WEICKER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7584, PREVENTING THE JUSTICE DEPT. FROM INITIATING OR PARTICIPATING IN LITIGATION TO SECURE REMEDIES FOR VIOLATION OF THE 5TH OR 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, IS GERMAINE. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 40
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1981
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Procedural vote on germaneness.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (52)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (28)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (20)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Donald Wilbur StewartDid not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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