House Roll Call 461, 94th Congress · October 21, 1975

TO AMEND H.R 8617, A BILL TO RESTORE TO FEDERAL CIVIL AND POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES THEIR RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATE VOLUNTARILY AS PRIVATE CITIZENS IN THE POLITICAL PROCESSES OF THE NATION, BY PROHIBITING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES BEING A CANDIDATE FOR ELECTIVE OFFICE UNLESS IT IS A PARTELECTIVE OFFICE UNLESS IT IS A PART-TIME ELECTIVE OFFICE OF TIME ELECTIVE OFFICE OF A STATE OR LOCAL POLITICAL A STATE OR LOCAL POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. SUBDIVISION.

147 yea · 260 nay27 not voting or present

Democrat40 yea · 225 nay

Republican105 yea · 34 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8617 ↗

Federal Employees' Political Activities Act

Policy area: Political participation — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.90): Restricting federal employees from seeking elective office limits political participation.
Tagged by: policy-area:Political participation
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (147)

Nay (260)

Not voting or present (27)

Corinne Claiborne BoggsDid not vote
John BrademasDid not vote
Delwin Morgan ClawsonDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Robert Blackford DuncanDid not vote
Joseph Landon EvinsDid not vote
John G. FaryDid not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
James Robert JonesDid not vote
Ray John MaddenDid not vote
James Robert MannDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
William Singer MoorheadDid not vote
Thomas Phillip O’Neill Jr.Did not vote
Otto Ernest PassmanDid not vote
John William Wright PatmanDid not vote
Jerry Lyle PettisDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Robert Lee Fulton SikesDid not vote
Bernice Frederic SiskDid not vote
Stephen Joshua SolarzDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote
Morris King UdallDid not vote
Charles Albert VanikDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
John Waldemar WydlerDid not vote

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