Senate Roll Call 1128, 95th Congress · October 13, 1978
TO AMEND H.R. 50 BY GIVING CONGRESS THE DISCRETION TO EXERCISE THE AUTHORITIES PROVIDED IN SECTION 304 OF THE BILL, RATHER THAN MAKING THEIR CONGRESSIONAL ACTION MANDATORY. SECTION 304 AUTHORIZES CONGRESS TO SET NEW EMPLOYMENT GOALS AND DEADLINES IF THE PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS THAT THE PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED UNEMPLOYMENT GOALS CAN NOT BE ACHEIVED.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Discretion on updating employment goals does not directly expand or restrain spending.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (50)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (40)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- 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
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (10)
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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