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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.

41 yea · 50 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 28 nay
Republican13 yea · 23 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5383

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)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (7)

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