Senate Roll Call 56, 95th Congress · March 15, 1977
TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT TO S. 174 THAT WOULD NULLIFY THE BILL IF THE PRESIDENT WERE TO DISCOVER A SIGNIFICANT INTERRUPTION IN THE SUPPLY OF ANY COMMODITY ESSENTIAL TO THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to amend the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to halt the importation of Rhodesian chrome.
Policy area: Embargo — 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.
- TradeA yea counts toward “Free trade”
model(0.75): Nullifying the embargo bill during commodity shortages allows freer trade flow of needed goods.
Tagged by: policy-area:Embargo
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (42)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Jennings Randolph
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- 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
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (50)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (8)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
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