Senate Roll Call 420, 97th Congress · November 20, 1981
TO AMEND H.J.RES.357 BY REDUCING BY 4 PERCENT THE TOTAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE BY THE JOINT RESOLUTION, WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS, NAMELY, THAT IT WILL (CONTINUED) NOT APPLY TO BUDGET AUTHORITY PROVIDED FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS AND RELATED AGENCIES INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1982; THE TITLE IV OF THE COMMERCE, STATE, JUSTICE, AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1982; THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM; AND THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CARE ACCOUNT, ACTIVITY, PROGRAM OR PROJECT. (MOTION PASSED). SEE NOTE(S) 18
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Missing Children Act
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.
- Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.90): Exempting the Department of Defense from a 4 percent spending cut protects and expands military funding.
Tagged by: keyword:defense appropriation
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Imposing a 4 percent across-the-board spending reduction represents fiscal restraint.
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 (62)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- 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.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (3)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
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