Senate Roll Call 579, 95th Congress · October 26, 1977
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5263, THE BILL TO SUSPEND THE DUTY ON CERTAIN BICYCLE PARTS AND TO PROVIDE CERTAIN TAX INCENTIVES FOR THE PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION OF ENERGY. HELMS AMENDMENT #1503 AMENDS THE EQUAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES ACT OF 1974 SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE BUSING OF CHILDREN FOR THE PURPOSES OF DESEGREGATION DURING A NATIONAL ENERGY CRISIS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Energy Tax Act of 1978
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 amendment addresses school busing, which is unrelated to 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 (56)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (31)
- James Browning Allen
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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