Senate Roll Call 997, 96th Congress · November 25, 1980
TO AMEND H.R. 7591, FISCAL 1981 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BY REDUCING THE FOOD FOR PEACE PROGRAM BY $100 MILLION, A REDUCTION OF $50 MILLION EACH FOR CONCESSIONAL SALES AND DONATIONS. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and for other purposes.
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 restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing appropriations for the Food for Peace program cuts 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 (21)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- George John Mitchell
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
Nay (62)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (17)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Donald Wilbur StewartDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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