Senate Roll Call 199, 98th Congress · July 16, 1983
TO TABLE THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT TO S. 675. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD, AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICABLE DATE, MAKE EVERY REASONABLE EFFORT TO INCLUDE IN THE START NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION THE NUCLEAR-ARMED SEA-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE WITH A VIEW TO THE COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF THAT TYPE OF WEAPON FROM THE WEAPON ARSENALS OF BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION, AND SHOULD, AS A MEANS OF ADVANCING SUCH GOAL, PROPOSE A MUTUAL AND VERIFIABLE MORATORIUM ON ANY FURTHER DEPLOYMENT OF NUCLEAR-ARMED SEA-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILES FOR THE DURATION OF THE START NEGOTIATIONS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984
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(0.90): Tabling an amendment proposing a cruise missile moratorium kills an arms restraint initiative.
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 (47)
- James Abdnor
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (40)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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