Senate Roll Call 1063, 95th Congress · September 29, 1978
TO TABLE PROXMIRE AMENDMENT #1957 TO KENNEDY AMENDMENT #1954 TO S. 2474, THE HEALTH SERVICES EXTENSION AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ACT OF 1978. AMENDMENT #1957 STRIKES THE TITLE OF THE BILL THAT ESTABLISHES AN OFFICE OF PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SPORTS MEDICINE. KENNEDY AMENDMENT #1954 PROVIDES FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES THROUGH FORMULA AND PROJECT GRANTS FOR PREVENTITIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Health Services and Centers Amendments of 1978
Policy area: Health — 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.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that strikes a health office preserves the expanded health program.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (47)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (39)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (14)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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