Senate Roll Call 996, 94th Congress · July 19, 1976
TO AMEND H.R. 366, TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO SURVIVORS OF CERTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS WHO DIE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY, BY ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act of 1976
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.
- Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Life insurance benefits for officers' families do not fit punitive versus reform criminal justice scales.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (66)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- 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
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- 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
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Frank Edward Moss
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (17)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- James Lane Buckley
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert William Packwood
- William Lloyd Scott
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (17)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Philip Aloysius HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Roman Lee HruskaDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Joseph Manuel MontoyaDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.Did not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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