Senate Roll Call 303, 94th Congress · July 21, 1975
TO CLOSE DEBATE ON A MOTION TO PROCEED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 6219, AMENDING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An Act to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend certain provisions for an additional seven years, to make permanent the ban against certain prerequisites to voting, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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 “Expand access”
model(0.85): A cloture motion advances the measure extending and expanding the Voting Rights Act.
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 (75)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- 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.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- 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.
- John Goodwin Tower
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (19)
- James Browning Allen
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (5)
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganPresent
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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