Senate Roll Call 1224, 94th Congress · September 21, 1976
TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF S. 2278, TO ALLOW A COURT TO AWARD ATTORNEYS' FEES TO A PREVAILING PARTY IN SUITS BROUGHT TO ENFORCE CERTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
The Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976
Policy area: Law — 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(0.90): Advancing a bill awarding attorney fees in civil rights suits strengthens civil rights protections.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (69)
- James George Abourezk
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (12)
Not voting or present (19)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- William Emerson Brock IIIDid not vote
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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