Senate Roll Call 828, 97th Congress · August 17, 1982
TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 2248, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS FOR FISCAL 1983. (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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.95): Authorizing defense spending expands military appropriations.
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 (77)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- 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
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- 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.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- 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
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (21)
- Max Baucus
- Dale Bumpers
- Alan Cranston
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Not voting or present (2)
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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