Senate Roll Call 315, 94th Congress · July 24, 1975
TO TABLE THURMOND AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6219, PROVIDING TO REPEAL SECTION-4 (SO-CALLED TRIGGERING MECHANISM) OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
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(0.95): Tabling an amendment to repeal the Voting Rights Act's triggering mechanism preserves 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 (72)
- James George Abourezk
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- 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
- 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
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- 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
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- 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 Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (22)
- James Browning Allen
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (5)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
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