Senate Roll Call 611, 97th Congress · May 13, 1982
TO AMEND S. 2248 TO PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SHOULD CONDUCT A TEST PROGRAM DURING FISCAL YEAR 1983 TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS PREFERENTIAL AWARDING OF CONTRACTS IN CERTAIN AREAS OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, IF THE PRICE DIFFERENTIAL IS 2.0 PERCENT (AND THE TOTAL OF SUCH CONTRACTS DOES NOT EXCEED $3 BILLION). (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 (0.85) Defense procurement preferences in high unemployment areas concern economic purchasing policy, not military power.
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 (47)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
Nay (49)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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