Senate Roll Call 789, 96th Congress · June 30, 1980
TO AMEND S. 2885, BUDGET RECONCILIATION, BY REQUIRING JOBLESS WORKERS TO ACCEPT "COMPARABLE WORK" AS A CONDITION TO RECEIVING EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Reconciliation Act of 1980
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 restraint”
model(0.85): Requiring unemployment recipients to accept comparable work restricts benefit eligibility, reducing federal 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 (28)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (61)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (11)
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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