Senate Roll Call 672, 94th Congress · March 11, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 8617 BY ELIMINATING THE BOARD OF POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND PLACING BACK IN THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION ITS FUNCTIONS TO HEAR AND DECIDE CASES ON MISUSE OF OFFICIAL AUTHORITY, SOLICITATION OF POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS, AND PROHIBITED POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
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 & ElectionsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Reorganizes administrative oversight of Hatch Act rules without clearly altering political access rights.
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 (74)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (17)
- James George Abourezk
- Edward William Brooke III
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- William Proxmire
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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