Senate Roll Call 313, 94th Congress · July 23, 1975
TO AMEND H.R. 6219, BY EXTENDING PROVISIONS OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT BY 7 INSTEAD OF 10 YEARS.
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 “Restrict access”
model(0.85): Shortening the Voting Rights Act extension from 10 to 7 years restricts the duration of voting protections.
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 (52)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (43)
- James George Abourezk
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- 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
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (4)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.