Senate Roll Call 69, 96th Congress · April 30, 1979
TO TABLE AN APPEAL ON THE RULING OF THE CHAIR CONCERNING THE HAYAKAWA AMENDMENT TO S. 210 RELATIVE TO ENFORCEMENT OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM GUIDELINES. THE CHAIR RULED THE HAYAKAWA AMENDMENT OUT OF ORDER. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 4
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Education — 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 RightsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Vote to table an appeal on a ruling of the chair is a procedural vote.
Tagged by: keyword:affirmative action
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- EducationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Vote on a procedural appeal ruling of the chair does not take a direct stance on education policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Education
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (60)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- 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
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (32)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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