Senate Roll Call 504, 98th Congress · June 14, 1984
TO TABLE THE COHEN AMENDMENT TO S. 2723 TO PROVIDE A 5.5 PERCENT MILITARY PAY RAISE, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1985, APPLICABLE TO ALL GRADES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 28
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Omnibus Defense Authorization Act, 1985
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(0.90): Tabling an amendment providing a military pay raise blocks higher compensation for service members.
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 (49)
- James Abdnor
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (45)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Not voting or present (6)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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