Senate Roll Call 314, 98th Congress · October 29, 1983
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 30 TO PROVIDE THAT, IN LIGHT OF THE PROMINENT PLACE OF THE PRESS IN A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM AND IN LIGHT OF ITS HAVING NOT BEEN RESTRICTED FROM COVERING CONFLICTS INVOLVING UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED UPON THE PRESS IN GRENADA SHALL CEASE. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 21
53 yea · 18 nay25 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 1 nay
Republican25 yea · 18 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Press access policy in a war zone does not move war powers.
Tagged by: keyword:armed forces
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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
Nay (19)
- James Abdnor
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (25)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid 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
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- George John MitchellDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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