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Vote Data for SCONRES22 (96th Congress)


Date: April 24, 1979

Subject: Defense Budget

Description: McGovern (D-SD) amendment to reduce national defense spending by $1.7 billion (budget authority) in 1980, to "transfer" $1 billion of that to nutrition, education for the handicapped, energy conservation and railroad rehabilitation programs, to use the rest to decrease the deficit and to make similar adjustments to the fiscal 1981 and 1982 budgets. This vote drew a line between those who did and did not see the need for increased spending to upgrade ailing U.S. defenses.

Result: Amendment Rejected, 24-69

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Voted in Favor:

Max Baucus (D-MT)  
Bill Bradley (D-NJ)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Larry Pressler (R-SD)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Paul Tsongas (D-MA)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Voted Against:

William Armstrong (R-CO)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
David Boren (D-OK)  
Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Thad Cochran (R-MS)  
William Cohen (R-ME)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
James Exon (D-NE)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Howell Heflin (D-AL)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Roger Jepsen (R-IA)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Carl Levin (D-MI)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
David Pryor (D-AR)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Alan Simpson (R-WY)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Donald Stewart (D-AL)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
John Warner (R-VA)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Did Not Vote:

Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Dave Durenberger (R-MN)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  

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