Senate Roll Call 301, 97th Congress · September 30, 1981
TO AMEND S. 1196, BY EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD SEEK AN EXPLANATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOVIET UNION ON THE REPORTS THAT IT HAS USED OR HAS PREPARED TO USE BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE PEOPLES OF LAOS, CAMBODIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND THE SOVIET UNION. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 12
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981
Policy area: International Affairs — 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 (0.95) This is a non-binding sense-of-Congress resolution.
Tagged by: keyword:afghanistan
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 (92)
- 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
- 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
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- 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
- 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
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- 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
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- 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
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (8)
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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