Senate Roll Call 989, 96th Congress · November 21, 1980
TO AMEND H.R. 8105, DOD APPROPRIATIONS, BY DECREASING FUNDS FOR AIR FORCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Decreasing Air Force research and development funding reduces military expenditures and programs.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Decreasing funding for Air Force research reduces federal 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 (12)
Nay (65)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- 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
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (23)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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