Senate Roll Call 714, 95th Congress · March 23, 1978
TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 5383, THE BILL AMENDING THE AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT BY INCREASING THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE TO SEVENTY FOR MOST OCCUPATIONS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Raising the mandatory retirement age protects workers' rights to continue employment.
Tagged by: policy-area:Age and employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.95): Raising the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 broadens protections against age discrimination.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (68)
- James Browning Allen
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (10)
Not voting or present (22)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Clifford Philip CaseDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Jennings RandolphDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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