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Senate Roll Call 988, 96th Congress · November 21, 1980

TO TABLE STENNIS MOTION TO RECONSIDER RC 479 ON H.R. 8105, DOD APPROPRIATIONS. (MOTION PASSED)

41 yea · 36 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 16 nay
Republican11 yea · 20 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8105

Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1981

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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.90): Tabling the motion to reconsider locks in the rejection of battleship reactivation funds.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Tabling the motion to reconsider prevents re-adding funding for battleship reactivation.

    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 (41)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (23)

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