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Vote Data for S1303 (95th Congress)


Date: October 12, 1977

Subject: Legal Services Corporation

Description: Helms (R-NC) substitute for the bill to turn responsibility for legal services over to the states through state-option delivery plans rather than the staff lawyer delivery system of the Legal Services Corporation. Legal services for the poor would be handled by the states instead of the federal "service centers" which tend to be staffed by left-wing activists.

Result: Amendment Rejected, 23-67

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Voted in Favor:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Dewey Bartlett (R-OK)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
William Lloyd Scott (R-VA)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Voted Against:

James Abourezk (D-SD)  
Wendell Anderson (D-MN)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
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)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Dick Clark (D-IA)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
William Hathaway (D-ME)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Did Not Vote:

Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Floyd Haskell (D-CO)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  

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