Senate Roll Call 109, 97th Congress · May 12, 1981
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 19 TO RESTORE CERTAIN CUTS IN SOCIAL SECURITU AND OTHER BENEFITS THAT WOULD RESULT FROM CHANGES IN THE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 3
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the recommended Congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984, and revising the Congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1981.
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): Restoring benefit cuts increases federal spending outlays.
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 (45)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (54)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (1)
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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