Senate Roll Call 669, 94th Congress · March 10, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 8617, SO AS TO BAR ACTIVITY IN PARTISAN ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL OFFICE AND FORBID CANDIDACY FOR FULL-TIME PARTISAN OFFICE AT ANY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT.
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(0.90): Restricts federal employees from partisan campaign activity and candidacy.
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 (31)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (60)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- 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
- 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
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- 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
- 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
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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