Senate Roll Call 978, 96th Congress · November 17, 1980
TO PASS H.R. 8061, FISCAL 1981 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1981
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Passing an appropriations bill authorizes fiscal spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (70)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- 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
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (17)
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- William Proxmire
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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