Senate Roll Call 608, 95th Congress · November 2, 1977
TO TABLE THE EAGLETON MOTION TO COMMIT H.R. 9346 TO THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK BEFORE THE END OF THE SESSION WITH A PROVISION AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS OUT OF GENERAL REVENUES TO COVER NOT LESS THAN 4% OF THE TOTAL COST OF THE BILL. H.R. 9346 IS THE SOCIAL SECURITY FINANCING AMENDMENTS OF 1977.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Social Security Amendments of 1977
Policy area: Social Welfare — 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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling a motion to instruct authorizing general revenue appropriations prevents additional federal spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (75)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (16)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry Martin Jackson
- George Stanley McGovern
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert William Packwood
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
Not voting or present (9)
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
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