Senate Roll Call 670, 94th Congress · March 11, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 8617, BY PROVIDING THAT EMPLOYEES WHO ARE "PUBLIC FIGURES" OR EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, IRS, CIA, NSA, OR DIA, MAY NOT ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITIES AT ANY TIME.
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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) The measure regulates federal employees' political activity, not tax policy.
Tagged by: keyword:irs
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.90): Restricts political activities for specific categories of federal employees.
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 (45)
- James Browning Allen
- 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.
- 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
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Little McClellan
- 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
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (46)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- 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
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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