Senate Roll Call 78, 97th Congress · April 7, 1981
TO TABLE PRESSLER AMENDMENT TO S. 694, AUTHORIZING SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS FOR FISCAL 1981 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, AND SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS FOR FISCAL 1981 FOR MILITARY PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, THAT DELETES FUNDING FOR THE MX MISSILE SYSTEM. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Supplemental Authorization Act, 1981
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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment that cuts MX missile funding preserves military procurement spending.
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 (79)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (15)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (6)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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