Senate Roll Call 1198, 94th Congress · September 13, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 13367, BY PROVIDING THAT THE PREVAILING PARTY IN A CIVIL SUIT BROUGHT TO ENFORCE CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLIANCE IN THE USE OF REVENUE SHARING FUNDS MAY BE AWARDED REASONABLE ATTORNEY FEES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
State and Local Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1976
Policy area: Revenue sharing — 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.
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.95): Awarding attorney fees to prevailing parties enhances enforcement of civil rights protections.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Attorney fee provisions for civil rights enforcement do not directly alter federal budget levels.
Tagged by: policy-area:Revenue sharing
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (41)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (35)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (24)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- William Emerson Brock IIIDid not vote
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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