Senate Roll Call 79, 97th Congress · April 7, 1981
TO TABLE BUMPERS AMENDMENT TO S. 694, SUPPLEMENTAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS, THAT PROHIBITS USE OF FUNDS FOR THE REACTIVATION OF THE BATTLESHIP U.S.S. NEW JERSEY. (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 the amendment blocking funds for battleship reactivation allows military expansion to proceed.
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 (69)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- 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
- 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
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- 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
Nay (23)
- Max Baucus
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (8)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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