Senate Roll Call 979, 96th Congress · November 17, 1980
TO PASS H.R. 7584, FISCAL 1981 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE, AND THE JUDICIARY. (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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passing an appropriations bill authorizes federal spending.
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 (51)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- 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.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (35)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (14)
- 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
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid 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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