From: rsherme@diamond.nswc.navy.mil (Russel Shermer (R43))
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Subject: fyi #124: Senate Votes to Preserve Space Station Funding
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:34:17 GMT
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Senate Votes to Preserve Space Station Funding

FYI No. 124, September 11, 1992


Although NASA administrators must have had some anxious moments
during the last eight months of debate over whether the Congress
would continue Space Station Freedom funding, in the end the vote
was not even close.  On Wednesday afternoon (September 9), the
Senate overwhelming rejected an amendment by Senator Dale Bumpers
(D-Arkansas) to terminate station funding.  The vote was 34-63
against the amendment, with one fewer vote supporting termination
this time as compared to last year.  Station funding for next year
is assured.

The general consensus is that in casting their votes, senators did
not want to do anything which could create additional unemployment.
The space station is responsible for what supporters estimate are
75,000 jobs in 37 states.

Earlier this year the House approved its own version of H.R. 5679,
the VA, HUD, Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, providing
$1.7 billion for the station.  The Senate version contains $2.1
billion for the program.  NASA has indicated it needs $1.9 billion
to keep the station on track, which is the amount the conference
committee can be expected to provide if it splits the difference
between the two bills.

The September 7 roll call vote on the Bumpers amendment follows.
A YEA vote was in favor of terminating the space station; a NAY
vote was in support of the station:


*** YEAS (34)
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DEMOCRATS (30)

Baucus M (MT)         Ford W (KY)           Metzenbaum H (OH)
Bradley B (NJ)        Fowler W (GA)         Mitchell G (ME)
Bryan R (NV)          Harkin T (IA)         Nunn S (GA)
Bumpers D (AR)        Hollings E (SC)       Pryor D (AR)
Byrd R (WV)           Kennedy E (MA)        Reid H (NV)
Conrad K (ND)         Kerry J (MA)          Rockefeller J (WV)
Daschle T (SD)        Kohl H (WI)           Sanford T (NC)
DeConcini D (AZ)      Lautenberg F (NJ)     Sasser J (TN)
Dixon A (IL)          Leahy P (VT)          Simon P (IL)
Exon J (NE)           Levin C (MI)          Wellstone P (MN)


REPUBLICANS (4)

Chafee J (RI)         Specter A (PA)        Warner J (VA)
Cohen W (ME)



*** NAYS (63)
***************************************************

DEMOCRATS (24)

Adams B (WA)          Glenn J (OH)          Moynihan D (NY)
Akaka D (HI)          Graham B (FL)         Pell C (RI)
Bentsen L (TX)        Heflin H (AL)         Riegle D (MI)
Bingaman J (NM)       Inouye D (HI)         Robb C (VA)
Boren D (OK)          Johnston J (LA)       Sarbanes P (MD)
Breaux J (LA)         Kerrey B (NE)         Shelby R (AL)
Cranston A (CA)       Lieberman J (CT)      Wirth T (CO)
Dodd C (CT)           Mikulski B (MD)       Wofford H (PA)


REPUBLICANS (39)

Bond C (MO)           Gramm P (TX)          Murkowski F (AK)
Brown H (CO)          Grassley C (IA)       Nickles D (OK)
Burns C (MT)          Hatch O (UT)          Packwood B (OR)
Coats D (IN)          Hatfield M (OR)       Pressler L (SD)
Cochran T (MS)        Helms J (NC)          Roth W (DE)
Craig L (ID)          Jeffords J (VT)       Rudman W (NH)
D'Amato A (NY)        Kassebaum N (KS)      Seymour J (CA)
Danforth J (MO)       Kasten B (WI)         Simpson A (WY)
Dole B (KS)           Lott T (MS)           Smith R (NH)
Domenici P (NM)       Lugar R (IN)          Stevens T (AK)
Durenberger D (MN)    Mack C (FL)           Symms S (ID)
Garn J (UT)           McCain J (AZ)         Thurmond S (SC)
Gorton S (WA)         McConnell M (KY)      Wallop M (WY)



*** NOT VOTING (3)
***************************************************

DEMOCRATS (3)

Biden J (DE)          Burdick Q (ND)        Gore A (TN)



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