Senate Roll Call 1275, 94th Congress · September 28, 1976
TO TABLE THE SCOTT (R., VA.) AMENDMENT TO S. 2278. THE SCOTT AMENDMENT SPECIFIES CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH ATTORNEYS' FEES MAY BE PAID TO A PREVAILING PARTY IN ACTIONS UNDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 OR VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.
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): Tabling an amendment restricting attorney fees preserves broader fee awards for civil rights enforcement.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- Voting & ElectionsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Attorney fee awards in civil rights litigation do not directly alter voting access rules.
Tagged by: keyword:voting rights
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 (57)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- 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
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- 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.
Nay (15)
Not voting or present (28)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- James Lane BuckleyDid not vote
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Clifford Peter HansenDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Rupert Vance HartkeDid not vote
- Roman Lee HruskaDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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