Senate Roll Call 377, 97th Congress · November 16, 1981
TO TABLE THE WEICKER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4169. THE WEICKER AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT NO FUNDS APPROPRIATED UNDER THE ACT MAY BE USED TO PREVENT IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS OF VOLUNTARY SCHOOL 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) Motion to table a school prayer policy rider, not a fiscal policy decision.
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 (52)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (35)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- 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
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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