Senate Roll Call 558, 98th Congress · June 28, 1984
TO AMEND H.R. 5712 TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT: 1) THERE IS NO PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY, NOR IN OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS, FOR HATEFUL, BIGOTED EXPRESSIONS OF ANTI-JEWISH AND RACIST SENTIMENTS SUCH AS THOSE REPORTEDLY BEING MADE BY LOUIS FARRAKHAN, AND ALL SUCH VICIOUS EXPRESSIONS MUST BE (CONTINUED) CONDEMNED, AND 2) THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SENATE IS INSTRUCTED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE CHAIRMEN OF THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES TO REQUEST THAT THEY IMMEDIATELY REPUDIATE IN WRITING THE SENTIMENTS AND EXPRESSIONS OF HATRED REPORTEDLY MADE BY MR. FARRAKHAN. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 29
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (1.00) This non-binding resolution regarding political rhetoric has no budget or spending impact.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (95)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- 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
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (5)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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