Senate Roll Call 227, 95th Congress · June 20, 1977
TO AMEND S. 717 WITH A SUNSET PROVISION THAT PROVIDES FOR THE TERMINATION OF THE NEW HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS ON DECEMBER 31, 1982 OR FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ACT, WHICHEVER IS LATER.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977
Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.
- Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”
model(0.95): Sunsetting health and safety standards limits long-term worker protections.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (32)
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (55)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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