Senate Roll Call 973, 96th Congress · November 13, 1980
TO AMEND WEICKER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7584, STATE-JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONS, BY PROHIBITING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FROM PROMOTING FORCED BUSING AS A REMEDY TO SCHOOL DESEGREGATION. SEE RC 464. (MOTION PASSED)
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) Anti-busing policy rider on appropriations bill, 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 (43)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (38)
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- 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
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (19)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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