Senate Roll Call 676, 94th Congress · March 11, 1976
TO TABLE BENTSEN AMENDMENT NO.1415 TO H.R. 8617. THE BENTSEN AMENDMENT PROHIBITS ANY PRESIDENT FROM APPOINTING A PERSON WHO HAD WORKED IN HIS CAMPAIGN AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OR DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL.
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 (0.90) Deals with presidential appointment ethics rules rather than voting access or election participation.
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 (58)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (30)
- James Browning Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Jesse Helms
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (12)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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