Senate Roll Call 593, 97th Congress · May 6, 1982
TO TABLE THE MITCHELL MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH THE MITCHELL AMENDMENT TO S. 2248 WAS ADOPTED. THE MITCHELL AMENDMENT PROHIBITS THE USE OF AUTHORIZED FUNDS TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH CIVILIAN FIRMS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF FIREFIGHTING OR SECURITY FUNCTIONS AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS OR FACILITIES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 30
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983
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) Tabling reconsideration on civilian contracting for military base services is administrative.
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 (51)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (47)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (2)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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