Senate Roll Call 683, 97th Congress · June 18, 1982
TO AMEND H.R. 3112 TO CLARIFY THE PHRASES "ANYWHERE IN THE TERRITORY" AND "ALL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS WITHIN ITS TERRITORY" UNDER THE BAILOUT PROVISION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965. THE AMENDMENT WOULD HAVE THE AFFECT OF MAKING IT EASIER FOR ALASKA TO BAILOUT. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 33
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend the effect of certain provisions, and for other purposes.
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(0.85): Making Voting Rights Act bailout easier for jurisdictions narrows voting rights enforcement.
Tagged by: keyword:voting rights
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Voting Rights Act bailout is not a financial regulation issue.
Tagged by: keyword:bailout
Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (28)
- James Abdnor
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
Nay (65)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- 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.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- 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
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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