Senate Roll Call 480, 102nd Congress · September 10, 1992
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for a more gradual period of transition (under a new alternative formula with respect to such transition) to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 as such changes apply to workers born in years after 1919 and before 1927 (and related beneficiaries) and to provide for increases in such workers' benefits accordingly, and for other purposes. — H.R.5488 BY ROYBAL (D-CA) -- TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1993 TREASURY DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1993 POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1993 EXECUTIVE OFFICE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1993 INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1993 ALIEN SPECIES PREVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1992 TREASURY FORFEITURE FUND ACT OF 1992 (PUB. L. 102-393, APPROVED 10/06/92) (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE SECTION 302(F) OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974 WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSIDERATION OF SANFORD AMENDMENT NO. 2974 (TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 2, LINE 15), TO PROVIDE FOR A MORE GRADUAL PERIOD OF TRANSITION TO THE CHANGES IN BENEFIT COMPUTATION RULES ENACTED IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENTS OF 1977 AS SUCH CHANGES APPLY TO WORKERS BORN IN THE YEARS AFTER 1919 AND BEFORE 1927, AND TO PROVIDE FOR INCREASES IN SUCH WORKERS BENEFITS ACCORDINGLY.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Waiving the Budget Act enables consideration of an amendment to increase Social Security benefit payments.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (49)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (49)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Larry E. Craig
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Connie Mack III
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (1)
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
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