Senate Roll Call 618, 95th Congress · November 4, 1977
TO AMEND THE CRANSTON SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT FOR H.R. 8175, THE BILL EXTENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATIVE PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS PAY COMPARIBILITY ACT. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT WOULD EXTEND THE PROPOSED INCENTIVE PAY PROVISIONS FOR VA PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS EMPLOYED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Amendments of 1977
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Incentive pay for VA medical staff concerns veterans health administration, not military force expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (37)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (49)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (14)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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