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Vote Data for HR8617 (94th Congress)


Date: March 31, 1976

Subject: Hatch Act Repeal

Description: Adoption of the conference report on the bill to give federal employees the right to participate in partisan political campaigns and to run for local, state or federal office. The bill would allow federal employees to run for political office while on the public payroll and engage in other political activites, thus bringing about a greater politicization of the federal bureaucracy.

Result: Conference Report Agreed to, 54-36

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Voted in Favor:

James Abourezk (D-SD)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Dick Clark (D-IA)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Floyd Haskell (D-CO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
William Hathaway (D-ME)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Voted Against:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Dewey Bartlett (R-OK)  
Glenn Beall, Jr. (R-MD)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Bill Brock (R-TN)  
James Buckley (R-NY)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
William Lloyd Scott (R-VA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Robert Taft, Jr. (R-OH)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Did Not Vote:

Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
John Tunney (D-CA)  

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