Senate Roll Call 675, 97th Congress · June 17, 1982
TO AMEND S. 1992 TO PROVIDE THAT, AFTER AUGUST 6, 1982, ANY LEGAL ACTION BROUGHT UNDER EITHER SECTION 4 OR 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT WOULD BE BROUGHT IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ORDINARILY HAVING VENUE OVER SUCH CASES. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 33
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982
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.
- Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.80): Moving Voting Rights Act cases to local venue courts weakens centralized voting protections.
Tagged by: keyword:voting rights
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (31)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (66)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (3)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
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