Senate Roll Call 115, 97th Congress · May 13, 1981
TO AMEND S. 815, FISCAL 1982 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, BY $50 MILLION FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AIRBORNE AND SPACED-BASED LASER WEAPONS AND TO DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE TO ESTABLISH A PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE FOR THOSE WEAPONS PROGRAMS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 4
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1982
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 expansion”
model(0.95): Adding $50 million for military laser weapon R&D expands military defense programs.
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 (91)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (6)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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