Senate Roll Call 33, 96th Congress · April 2, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 2283, A BILL TO INCREASE FUNDS FOR AND EXTEND THE LIFE OF THE COUNCIL ON WAGE AND PRICE STABILITY, BY REQUIRING THAT ONE HALF OF THE EXPENDITURES OF THE COUNCIL BE SPENT TO MONITOR FEDERAL INFLATION POLICIES. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to amend the Council on Wage and Price Stability Act to extend the authority granted by such act to September 30, 1980, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Taxation — 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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Monitoring inflation policy is not a tax measure.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (36)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (43)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- John Anthony Durkin
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (21)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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