Senate Roll Call 673, 94th Congress · March 11, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 8617, BY RETAINING THE HATCH ACT PROVISIONS STRONGLY RESTRICTING THE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, THE IRS AND THE CIA.
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 addresses political activity restrictions, not tax policy.
Tagged by: keyword:irs
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.90): Retains Hatch Act restrictions on political participation for DOJ, IRS, and CIA 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 (69)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- John Little McClellan
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- 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.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (23)
- James George Abourezk
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- John Orlando Pastore
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
Not voting or present (8)
- 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
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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