Senate Roll Call 306, 94th Congress · July 21, 1975
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 & ElectionsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A motion to proceed to consideration is a floor procedural vote.
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 (66)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- 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
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- 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
- Robert Taft Jr.
- John Goodwin Tower
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (13)
Not voting or present (20)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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