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Vote Data for S1477 (96th Congress)


Date: September 7, 1979

Subject: Presumption of Regulatory Legality

Description: Culver (D-IA) motion to table (kill) the Bumpers (D-AR) amendment to remove the legal presumption in federal courts that federal regulations are valid. This makes it easier to contest the legality of regulations by placing the burden of proof for a regulation's validity on the agency rather than the person contesting its legality.

Result: Motion to Table Failed, 27-51

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Voted in Favor:

Max Baucus (D-MT)  
Bill Bradley (D-NJ)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Thad Cochran (R-MS)  
William Cohen (R-ME)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Dave Durenberger (R-MN)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Carl Levin (D-MI)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Paul Tsongas (D-MA)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Voted Against:

William Armstrong (R-CO)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
David Boren (D-OK)  
Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Exon (D-NE)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Howell Heflin (D-AL)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
Larry Pressler (R-SD)  
David Pryor (D-AR)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Alan Simpson (R-WY)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Donald Stewart (D-AL)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
John Warner (R-VA)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Did Not Vote:

Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Roger Jepsen (R-IA)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

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