Senate Roll Call 556, 95th Congress · October 12, 1977
TO OFFER AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR S. 1303, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION. THE HELMS AMENDMENT TRANSFERS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEGAL AID FOR THE POOR FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO THE SEPARATE STATE GOVERNMENTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Legal Services Corporation Act Amendments
Policy area: Law — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Shift of federal legal aid funding responsibilities to states reduces federal fiscal outlay.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (24)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (68)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- 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
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- 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
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
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