Senate Roll Call 139, 96th Congress · June 20, 1979
TO AMEND S. 239, THE VISTA AUTHORIZATION, BY MAKING THE PEACE CORPS AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1979
Policy area: Labor 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 & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Peace Corps organizational structure is not on the employer vs worker axis.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (32)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (63)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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