Senate Roll Call 236, 94th Congress · June 20, 1975
TO AMEND H.R. 6900, PROPOSED EMERGENCY COMPENSATION AND SPECIAL UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE EXTENSION ACT, BY EXTENDING THE AUTHORITY OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TO INCREASE MEDICARE PART B PREMIUMS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Emergency Compensation and Special Unemployment Assistance Extension Act of 1975
Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”
model(0.75): Increasing Medicare Part B premiums raises beneficiary costs, placing additional burdens on healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Increasing Medicare Part B premiums does not directly align with labor-management worker or employer priorities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (45)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (36)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Pete V. Domenici
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (18)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Glenn Beall Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Paul Jones FanninDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
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