Senate Roll Call 213, 98th Congress · July 25, 1983
TO TABLE THE MELCHER AMENDMENT TO S. 675. THE MELCHER (CONTINUED AMENDMENT TRANSFERS SUFFICIENT FUNDS FROM RECRUITING ACTIVITIES TO PROVIDE A 4 PERCENT COLA INCREASE FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL OF GRADE E-1 WITH LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS ACTIVE DUTY. (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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Reallocating funds between recruiting and pay raises is an internal account transfer.
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 (56)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (26)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Not voting or present (18)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- T. Slade GortonDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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