Senate Roll Call 563, 95th Congress · October 17, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 3387 BY DELETING A SECTION OF THE BILL THAT AUTHORIZES THE STATE WELFARE DEPARTMENTS TO WRITE UNLIMITED "JOINT BENEFIT" CHECKS TO AFDC RECIPIENTS, LANDLORDS, OR UTILITY COMPANIES FOR UP TO 50% OF THE RECIPIENT'S TOTAL AFDC PAYMENT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An Act to extend certain Social Security Act provisions, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance — 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.
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) The measure deals with welfare check policies, not trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
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 (63)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- 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
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (21)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (16)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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