Senate Roll Call 312, 98th Congress · October 29, 1983
TO TABLE THE DIXON AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 308. THE DIXON AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT A PROVISION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO DISAPPROVE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS OF APPROPRIATIONS SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS PART OF THE (CONTINUED) CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 21
53 yea · 25 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 4 nay
Republican20 yea · 23 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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) Non-binding sense-of-the-Senate resolution regarding a constitutional line-item veto.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (54)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (27)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (19)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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