Senate Roll Call 51, 102nd Congress · April 25, 1991
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 years after 1916 and before 1927 and for other purposes. — (SENATE REJECTED THE SIMON AMENDMENT NO. 84, REDUCING BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR DEFENSE SPENDING BY 1 PERCENT.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the Congressional Budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996.
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(0.85): Increasing Social Security benefit calculation periods increases entitlement spending.
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 (30)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (64)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (5)
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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