Senate Roll Call 662, 96th Congress · May 22, 1980
TO TABLE HELMS AMENDMENT TO S. 2511, CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION, THAT WOULD PREVENT THE COMMISSION FROM ENGAGING IN LOBBYING ACTIVITIES BEFORE EITHER THE U.S. CONGRESS OR THE VARIOUS STATE LEGISLATURES. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to amend section 106 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to authorize appropriations for the Commission on Civil Rights for the fiscal year 1981.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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 “Broaden protections”
model(0.85): Tabling amendment restricting lobbying preserves Civil Rights Commission authority.
Tagged by: keyword:civil rights
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 (65)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- 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
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (26)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (9)
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
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