Senate Roll Call 56, 96th Congress · April 25, 1979
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 22 BY PROVIDING FOR A $1.1 BILLION REDUCTION IN THE ALLOWANCE FUNCTION OF THE BUDGET TO ACCOMMODATE FUNDING FOR FEDERAL OVERTIME PAY, FEDERAL FILMMAKING, FEDERAL TRAVEL, AND FOR A REDUCTION IN THE FEDERAL WORK FORCE. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 5
41 yea · 44 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 39 nay
Republican30 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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 & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”
model(0.85): Reducing spending for federal workforce overtime pay and reducing workforce favors employer priority.
Tagged by: keyword:overtime
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 (41)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- 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.
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- 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.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Not voting or present (15)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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