Senate Roll Call 804, 97th Congress · August 11, 1982
TO TABLE THE PERCY AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6863, WHICH REAFFIRMS UNITED STATES' LONGSTANDING DETERMINATION (A) TO PREVENT IN CUBA THE STATIONING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY THE SOVIET UNION, THE DEVELOPMENT OR ACQUISITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, OR ANY OTHER EXTERNALLY SUPPORTED MILITARY CAPABILITY ENDANGERING THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES; (2) TO RESIST EFFORTS BY CUBA TO EXTEND ITS MARXIST-LENINIST IDEOLOGY OR POLITICAL SYSTEM IN THE HEMISPHERE BY FORCE OR THE THREAT OF FORCE IN VIOLATION OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS; (3) TO PURSUE ANY DIPLOMATIC OPPORTUNITY, INCLUDING THOSE AFFORDED BY THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, WITH A REASONABLE PROSPECT OF LEADING TO THE REDUCTION OF AGGRESSIVE OR SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES BY CUBA OR ANY OTHER STATE IN THE HEMISPHERE; AND (4) TO WORK THROUGHOUT THE HEMISPHERE TO ACHIEVE PEACEFUL AND DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION IN CUBA AND IN ALL STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE HEMISPHERE. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 38
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982
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 restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling a resolution asserting a firm defense posture against Cuba rejects military expansion.
Tagged by: keyword:nuclear weapons
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) The measure addresses foreign policy toward Cuba, not fiscal spending.
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 (48)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (51)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (1)
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
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