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Senate Roll Call 566, 95th Congress · October 19, 1977

TO AGREE TO A MODFIED AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5383 THAT WOULD DELETE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL THAT EXEMPTS TENURED ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THIS BILL. THE ORIGINAL CRANSTON AMENDMENT WAS TO DELETE LANGUAGE THAT EXEMPTED TENURED ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, TENURED PROFESSORS, AND BUSINESS EXECUTIVES WITH A HIGH PENSION.

45 yea · 48 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 26 nay
Republican15 yea · 22 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): Deleting exemptions from mandatory retirement age laws expands worker protections against 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 (47)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (5)

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