Senate Roll Call 43, 95th Congress · March 10, 1977
TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT TO S. 427, THE SENATE COMPANION BILL TO H.R. 11, A BILL AUTHORIZING FUNDS FOR PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS. THE DURKIN AMENDMENT GUARANTEES A MINIMUM ALLOCATION TO EACH STATE, TERRITORY, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OF .75% OF THE TOTAL ALLOCATED PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Public Works Employment Act
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 & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Geographic formula for distributing public works funds is neutral on worker versus employer priority.
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 (64)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- 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
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (28)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (8)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
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