Senate Roll Call 325, 98th Congress · November 4, 1983
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4185. THE HELMS AMENDME WOULD END U.S. COMPLIANCE WITH THE UNRATIFIED, 1979 SALT II TREATY. (MOTION PASSED) 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment that ends compliance with SALT II preserves arms control 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 (52)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- 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
Nay (30)
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (18)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid 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
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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