Senate Roll Call 301, 98th Congress · October 21, 1983
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3222, A BILL APPROPRIATING $10.27 BILLION IN FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, AND THE JUDICIARY. THE HELMS AMENDMENT LIMITS THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN SEEKING COURT ORDERS REQUIRING THE BUSING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1984
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 (0.95) School busing rider is a policy fight where money 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 (30)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan John Dixon
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (52)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (18)
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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