Senate Roll Call 729, 95th Congress · April 12, 1978

TO TABLE HELMS AMENDMENT #102 TO THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY. HELMS AMENDMENT #102 REQUIRES THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA TO GUARANTEE THE CONTINUED RECOGNITION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE U.S. CITIZENS IN THE CANAL ZONE.

54 yea · 40 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat44 yea · 15 nay

Republican13 yea · 24 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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.

Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that guarantees civil rights protections kills those protective guarantees.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
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 (57)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (3)

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