Senate Roll Call 282, 98th Congress · October 18, 1983
TO AMEND H.R. 3706 TO MAKE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS DAY ON MARCH 16 OF EACH YEAR A NATIONAL HOLIDAY. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 19
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday.
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 RightsDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Commemorative holiday designation is a ceremonial measure.
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 (22)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (70)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- 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
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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