Senate Roll Call 565, 95th Congress · October 19, 1977
TO TABLE THE CHAFEE AMENDMENT TO THE CRANSTON AMENDMENT (SEE RC 566) TO H.R. 5383, THE BILL RAISING THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FROM SIXTY-FIVE TO SEVENTY. THE CHAFEE AMENDMENT RETAINS LANGUAGE THAT EXEMPTS TENURED PROFESSORS AND ALSO BUSINESS EXECUTIVES WITH ANNUAL PENSIONS OF MORE THAN $20,000 FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THIS BILL.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978
Policy area: Age 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 & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”
model(0.85): Tabling the amendment eliminates exemptions, protecting older workers from forced retirement.
Tagged by: policy-area:Age 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 (42)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (51)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
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