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Vote Data for SCONRES80 (95th Congress)


Date: April 26, 1978

Subject: HEW Budget Cut

Description: Byrd (I-VA) amendment to reduce by $2.1 billion budget authority and outlays for Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Department programs, to make up for funds reported to have been misspent by HEW in 1977. This would reduce federal spending and the inflation-causing deficit, that is compounded by HEW's inept usage of funds through mismanagement which resulted in a $7 billion waste to the taxpayer.

Result: Amendment Rejected, 38-57

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Voted in Favor:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Dewey Bartlett (R-OK)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Kaneaster Hodges (D-AR)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
William Lloyd Scott (R-VA)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Voted Against:

Wendell Anderson (D-MN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Dick Clark (D-IA)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Floyd Haskell (D-CO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Paul Hatfield (D-MT)  
William Hathaway (D-ME)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Muriel Humphrey (D-MN)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Did Not Vote:

James Abourezk (D-SD)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  

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