Senate Roll Call 972, 96th Congress · November 12, 1980
TO TABLE WEICKER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7584, 1981 APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE, AND JUDICIARY, THAT WOULD PERMIT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INITITATE OR PARTICIPATE IN LITIGATION TO SECURE REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS (CONTINUED) OF THE FIFTH OR FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. (MOTION FAILED)
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 (0.90) Policy rider on DOJ litigation, not a fiscal measure.
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 (34)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (49)
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (17)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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