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Vote Data for Wald Nomination (96th Congress)


Date: July 24, 1979

Subject: Wald Nomination

Description: Confirmation of President Carter's nomination of Patricia M. Wald of Maryland to be a U.S. judge in the District of Columbia circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The nomination of Wald, an advocate of undermining parents' rights, income redistribution, and lesser penalties for drug addicts, is an example of efforts to pack the courts with liberal judicial activists.

Result: Nomination Confirmed, 77-21

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Voted in Favor:

Max Baucus (D-MT)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
David Boren (D-OK)  
Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN)  
Bill Bradley (D-NJ)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Thad Cochran (R-MS)  
William Cohen (R-ME)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
Dave Durenberger (R-MN)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Exon (D-NE)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Howell Heflin (D-AL)  
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)  
Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Carl Levin (D-MI)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
Larry Pressler (R-SD)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
David Pryor (D-AR)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Alan Simpson (R-WY)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Donald Stewart (D-AL)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Paul Tsongas (D-MA)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Voted Against:

William Armstrong (R-CO)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)  
Roger Jepsen (R-IA)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
John Warner (R-VA)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Did Not Vote:

Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  

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