Senate Roll Call 678, 94th Congress · March 11, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 8617. THE SCOTT AMENDMENT IS IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE ALLOWING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES COVERED BY THE HATCH ACT TO PARTICIPATE IN LOCAL CAMPAIGNS OR TO BE CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL ONLY, RULING OUT STATE AND FEDERAL CAMPAIGNS.
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(0.85): Limits political activity expansions strictly to local campaigns, restricting broader access.
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 (29)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- 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
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Robert Taft Jr.
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (57)
- James Browning Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- 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
- John Little McClellan
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- 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 (14)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid 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
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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