Roll Call on Senate’s Override of President’s Veto

Here is the 78-21 roll call by which the Senate on Thursday overrode President Reagan’s veto of a bill imposing sanctions on South Africa. A vote for was to enact the bill despite Reagan’s objections; a vote against was to sustain the veto.

Democrats voting for (47):

Baucus (Mont.); Bentsen (Texas); Biden (Del.); Bingaman (N.M.); Boren (Okla.); Bradley (N.J.); Bumpers (Ark.); Burdick (N.D.); Byrd (W.Va.); Chiles (Fla.); Cranston (Calif.); DeConcini (Ariz.); Dixon (Ill.); Dodd (Conn.); Eagleton (Mo.); Exon (Neb.); Ford (Ky.); Glenn (Ohio); Gore (Tenn.); Harkin (Iowa); Hart (Colo.); Heflin (Ala.); Hollings (S.C.); Inouye (Hawaii); Johnston (La.); Kennedy (Mass.); Kerry (Mass.); Lautenberg (N.J.); Leahy (Vt.); Levin (Mich.); Long (La.); Matsunaga (Hawaii); Melcher (Mont.); Metzenbaum (Ohio); Mitchell (Maine); Moynihan (N.Y.); Nunn (Ga.); Pell (R.I.); Proxmire (Wis.); Pryor (Ark.); Riegle (Mich.); Rockefeller (W. Va.); Sarbanes (Md.); Sasser (Tenn.); Simon (Ill.); Stennis (Miss.); Zorinsky (Neb.)

Republicans voting for (31):

Abdnor (S.D.); Andrews (N.D.); Boschwitz (Minn.); Chafee (R.I.); Cohen (Maine); D’Amato (N.Y.); Danforth (Mo.); Domenici (N.M.); Durenberger (Minn.); Evans (Wash); Gorton (Wash.); Grassley (Iowa); Hatfield (Ore.); Hawkins (Fla.); Heinz (Pa.); Kassebaum (Kan.); Kasten (Wis.); Lugar (Ind.); Mathias (Md.); Mattingly (Ga.); McConnell (Ky.); Murkowski (Alaska); Packwood (Ore.); Quayle (Ind.); Roth (Del.); Specter (Pa.); Stafford (Vt.); Trible (Va.); Warner (Va.); Weicker (Conn.); Wilson (Calif.)

Democrats voting against (0):

Republicans voting against (21):

Armstrong (Colo.); Broyhill (N.C.); Cochran (Miss.); Denton (Ala.); Dole (Kan.); Goldwater (Ariz.); Gramm (Texas); Hatch (Utah); Hecht (Nev.); Helms (N.C.); Humphrey (N.H.); Laxalt (Nev.); McClure (Idaho); Nickles (Okla.); Pressler (S.D.); Rudman (N.H.); Simpson (Wyo.); Stevens (Alaska); Symms (Idaho); Thurmond (S.C.); Wallop (Wyo.).

Absent and Not Voting (1):

Garn (R-Utah).