Senate Roll Call 666, 94th Congress · March 10, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 8617, THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL ACTIVITIES ACT OF 1976, TO RESTORE TO FEDERAL CIVILIAN AND POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES THEIR RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATE VOLUNTARILY, AS PRIVATE CITIZENS, IN THE POLITICAL PROCESSES OF THE NATION AND TO PROTECT SUCH EMPLOYEES FROM IMPROPER POLITICAL SOLICITATIONS. THE FONG AMENDMENT INCLUDES THE PROVISION OF PERSONAL SERVICES IN THE DEFINITION OF "POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS" AND IT BARS THE GIVING, TAKING, OR SOLICITING OF POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AMONG EMPLOYEES IN ALL CASES, WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS A SUPERIOR SUBORDINATE RELATIONSHIP.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Federal Employees' Political Activities Act
Policy area: Political participation — 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): Restricts federal employees' political contribution and solicitation activities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Political participation
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 (38)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- William Emerson Brock III
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Nay (56)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- 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
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- 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
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- 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
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (6)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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