Senate Roll Call 324, 98th Congress · November 4, 1983
TO AMEND H.R. 4185 TO TO STRIKE THE LANGUAGE THAT PROVIDES THAT NO FUNDS IN THE ACT MAY BE OBLIGATED OR EXPENDED TO FORMULATE OR CARRY OUT ANY REQUIREMENT THAT, IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT A BID OR AN OFFER ON A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACT TO BE LET FOR THE SUPPLY OF COMMERICAL OR COMMERCIAL-TYPE PRODUCTS, A SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN MUST (1) DEMONSTRATE THAT ITS PRODUCT IS ACCEPTED IN THE COMMERICAL MARKET, OR (2) SATISFY ANY OTHER PREQUALIFICATION TO SUBMITTING A BID OR AN OFFER FOR THE SUPPLY OF ANY SUCH PRODUCT. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 22
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation 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 (0.90) Contracting prequalification rules for small businesses do not impact military expansion or restraint.
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 (23)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- John Melcher
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
Nay (64)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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