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Vote Data for SRES85 (91st Congress)


Date: June 25, 1969

Subject: Limit Presidential Military Commitments

Description: Passage of the resolution defining a national commitment as the use of armed forces on foreign territory or a promise to assist a foreign country by armed force or financial resources, and affirming the role of the Congress with respect to making national commitments. This resolution, which did not carry the force of law, nevertheless represented a clear expression of Senate sentiment opposed by Presidents Johnson and Nixon as a restriction on the President. The measure had originally been introduced in 1967.

Result: Agreed to, 70-16

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Voted in Favor:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Alan Bible (D-NV)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (D-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Marlow Cook (R-KY)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Fred Harris (D-OK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Spessard Holland (D-FL)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Len Jordan (R-ID)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
Winston Prouty (R-VT)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
William Saxbe (R-OH)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
William Spong (D-VA)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
John Williams (R-DE)  
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Stephen Young (D-OH)  

Voted Against:

Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Everett Dirksen (R-IL)  
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)  
Peter Dominick (R-CO)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Edward Gurney (R-FL)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  

Did Not Vote:

Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
Charles Goodell (R-NY)  
Albert Gore (D-TN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Harold Hughes (D-IA)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
George Murphy (R-CA)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Richard Russell (D-GA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Joseph Tydings (D-MD)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

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