Senate Roll Call 857, 97th Congress · September 28, 1982
(CONTINUED) TO AMEND H.R. 7072, A BILL APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1983 FOR AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES PROGRAMS. THE ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT PROHIBITS THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE TO PERSONS WHO PRODUCE CERTAIN AGRICULRURAL COMMODITIES ON HIGHLY ERODIBLE LAND BENEFITS FROM CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 44
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other purposes.
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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Prohibiting expenditures of agricultural program funds for specific lands reduces overall federal 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 (69)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- 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.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (29)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (2)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
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