Senate Roll Call 114, 96th Congress · June 4, 1979
TO AMEND S. 1157, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FISCAL 1980 AUTHORIZATION, BY STRIKING $2 MILLION FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1980
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.90): Striking funding for the Civil Rights Division weakens civil rights enforcement.
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 (20)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (60)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (20)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Warren Grant MagnusonDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
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