Senate Roll Call 347, 98th Congress · November 10, 1983
TO AFFIRM THE RULING OF THE CHAIR THAT THE METZENBAUM AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 413 CONSTITUTES LEGISLATION ON AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL. THE METZENBAUM AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR TERMINATION AND EXTENSION OF CERTAIN TIMBER SALES CONTRACTS, AS BEING LEGISLATION ON AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL. (RULING AFFIRMED) SEE NOTE(S) 23
43 yea · 37 nay20 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 26 nay
Republican32 yea · 11 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 (0.90) A procedural ruling on timber sales contract provisions does not represent a clear fiscal spending axis.
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 (43)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (37)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- 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
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (20)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid 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
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.