Senate Roll Call 159, 97th Congress · June 19, 1981
TO AMEND S. 921, THE AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR FISCAL 1982, BY PROVIDING THAT NOTHING IN THE ACT SHALL BE INTERPRETED TO LIMIT IN ANY MANNER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Veterans Programs Extension and Improvement Act of 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Measure concerns Department of Justice constitutional enforcement, not military 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 (34)
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (49)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (17)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Don NicklesDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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