Senate Roll Call 202, 98th Congress · July 16, 1983
TO TABLE THE MELCHER AMENDMENT TO S. 675. THE MELCHER AMENDMENT PROVIDES A 4 PERCENT PAY RAISE, EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1984, TO ENLISTED MEMBERS IN PAY GRADE E-1 WITH LESS THAN 4 MONTHS SERVICE. (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 restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling a proposed military pay raise rejects increased military personnel funding.
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 (63)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (14)
Not voting or present (23)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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