Senate Roll Call 122, 96th Congress · June 7, 1979
TO AMEND S. 721, THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION, BY AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSION TO REPORT TO THE CONGRESS CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION OF AMERICANS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPEAN ETHNIC GROUPS. (MOTION PASSED
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to authorize appropriations for the United States Commission on Civil Rights for 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 “Broaden protections”
model(0.85): Authorizing reports on discrimination against additional ethnic groups expands protections.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights,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 (91)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (1)
Not voting or present (8)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
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