Senate Roll Call 46, 95th Congress · March 10, 1977
TO AMEND S. 427 BY REVISING THE METHOD OF ALLOCATING PROGRAM FUNDS SO THAT THE ALLOCATIONS ARE BASED ON THE RATIO OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED IN THE STATE TO THE TOTAL NUMBER UNEMPLOYED NATIONALLY.
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 (0.85) Reallocating public works funds among states based on unemployment ratio is a formula shift.
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 (33)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- 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
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Nay (58)
- James George Abourezk
- 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
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
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