Senate Roll Call 552, 96th Congress · February 28, 1980
TO AMEND H.R. 10, AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INITIATE SUIT TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS, BY INSURING THAT RELIEF GRANTED BY THE COURT IS CONSISTENT WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CERTIFICATION OF LEGAL DEPRIVATIONS. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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(0.85): Restricting court relief to Justice Department certifications narrows civil rights enforcement.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
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 (43)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (48)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Carl LevinDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
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