Senate Roll Call 554, 96th Congress · February 28, 1980
TO AMEND H.R. 10 BY PROHIBITING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM INSTITUTING OR INTERVENING IN ANY ACTION UNDER THIS ACT IF THE INSTITUTION OR INTERVENTION WOULD BE INCONSISTENT WITH THE POLICY AND GOALS OF CERTAIN PROGRAMS ADMINISTERED BY THE SECRETARY OF HEW. SEE RC 49. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 25
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(0.90): Prohibiting Attorney General enforcement actions under certain conditions narrows protections.
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 (45)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (47)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- 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.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (8)
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid 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
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