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Show second session of the 95th Congress; 516 of these were in the Senate. Hatch tied with retiring Senator Cliff Hansen (R-Wyo) (R-Wyo) for the highest percentage per-centage in the West. He was surpassed by only one Democrat, Demo-crat, Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), from a western state. During Senator Hatch's first session of Congress in 1977 his voting percentage was a very creditable 92, but with constant concern and effort the Senator was able to add 4 in 1978. "There are a lot of conflicts con-flicts in Senate procedure," said Senator Hatch, "which can cause you to miss votes If you're not careful. For example, sometimes com - have only7andahalfinWe to vote after the last noti fication.) The Utah Concessions Delegation ranked 6th in nation in overall voting a 94 average. Ohio ha the ' highest attendance 0 1978 with a 98 averaj Senator Hatch had the high est percentage in the Delegation. - mittee and sub-committee proceedings go on at the same time as floor debate and voting. The Senate doesn't recess for meals and many times runs late into the evenings. I've seen some of my colleagues miss votes while talking to constituents within 20 steps of the voting clerk, just off the senate floor. Others have missed votes while eating a sandwich sand-wich right in the Capitol building itself. I missed one vote after running two blocks from a luncheon engagement en-gagement right on Capitol Hill," said Hatch. (Senators (latch improves record While the overall attendance attend-ance during votes by the members of the 95 th Congress declined, the voting record of Senator Or-rin Or-rin G. Hatch (R-Utah) continued con-tinued to rise. Hatch ranked number two among his Republican Re-publican colleagues in percent per-cent of voting attendance during the 95thCongress and number four overall. The Utahn's final voting record was 96. There were 1,350 recorded re-corded votes during the |
