Senate Roll Call 654, 98th Congress · October 5, 1984
TO TABLE THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 654, A BILL PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE FROM $1.573 TRILLION TO $1.824 TRILLION IN THE PUBLIC DEBT. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR A MUTUAL AND VERIFIABLE FREEZE AND REDUCTION IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS. (MOTION PASSED)
55 yea · 42 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat9 yea · 35 nay
Republican46 yea · 7 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.
- Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.85): Tabling a nuclear freeze and reduction amendment rejects military restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:nuclear weapons
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 (55)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- 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
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (42)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (3)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid 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.