Senate Roll Call 852, 97th Congress · September 24, 1982
TO AMEND H.R. 6596, A BILL APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS AND CERTAIN INDEPENDENT AGENCIES. THE ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN PIPELINE. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to modify the mandatory sentence structure for the use of a firearm in the commission of a Federal felony, to establish a mandatory sentence for the use of a cutting or stabbing weapon in the commission of a Federal felony, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.
- Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Non-binding sense of the Senate resolution unrelated to domestic criminal justice policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (84)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- 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
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- 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
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- 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
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (1)
Not voting or present (15)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.