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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)

32 yea · 62 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 52 nay
Republican28 yea · 11 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 239

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)

Nay (63)

Not voting or present (5)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.