Senate Roll Call 376, 97th Congress · November 16, 1981
TO TABLE THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4169, WHICH WOULD STRIKE THE LANGUAGE WHICH WOULD PROVIDE THAT NO FUNDS APPROPRIATED UNDER THE ACT MAY BE USED TO PREVENT IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS OF VOLUNTARY PRAYER AND MEDITATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 17
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) School prayer policy rider on an appropriations bill is non-fiscal.
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 (71)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- 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
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- 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
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- 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
- 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.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (13)
Not voting or present (16)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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