Senate Roll Call 315, 95th Congress · July 21, 1977
TO AMEND S. 1538 BY ALLOWING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO EXAMINE THE X-RAYS OF CLAIMANTS THAT HAVE WORKED IN COAL MINES FOR LESS THAN 25 YEARS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Black Lung Benefits Reform Act
Policy area: Black lung — 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.
- Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Black lung worker compensation procedure is not on a climate policy axis.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”
model(0.85): Allowing government re-examination of x-rays restricts worker benefit claims.
Tagged by: policy-area:Black lung
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 (49)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (43)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (8)
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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