Senate Roll Call 949, 97th Congress · December 18, 1982
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 631, PROVIDING THAT NONE OF THE FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE BY THE ACT SHALL BE USED TO PAY COSTS, FEES, OR OTHER EXPENSES INCURRED FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON LAW OF THE SEA, WHICH WAS SIGNED ON DECEMBER 10, 1982, IN MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 43
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 1983
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A policy rider barring UN treaty implementation where spending impact is incidental.
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 (49)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (45)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- 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
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (6)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
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