Senate Roll Call 98, 96th Congress · May 16, 1979
TO AMEND THE PRESSLER AMENDMENT (SEE RC 99) TO S. 7, A VETERANS HEALTH CARE BILL. THE HEINZ AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT AUTHORIZATION TO REIMBURSE OR CONTRACT FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES OUTSIDE VA FACILITIES SHALL BE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE VA ADMINISTRATION. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Veterans Health Care Amendments of 1979
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) The text lacks sufficient detail on whether making contracting discretionary expanded or restricted coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Veterans healthcare administration does not directly expand or restrain active military forces or war powers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (42)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (54)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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