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Senate Roll Call 122, 97th Congress · May 20, 1981

TO TABLE DOLE AMENDMENT TO H. R. 3512 BY PROVIDING THAT CONGRESS SHALL NOT PRECIPITOUSLY AND UNFAIRLY REDUCE EARLY RETIREES' BENEFITS, AND THAT CONGRESS WILL NOT SUPPORT REDUCTIONS IN BENEFITS WHICH EXCEED THOSE NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE A FINANCIALLY SOUND SYSTEM AND THE WELL BEING OF ALL RETIRED AMERICANS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 5

4 yea · 93 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 46 nay
Republican4 yea · 46 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3512

Supplemental Appropriations and Recission Act, 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that blocks early retiree benefit cuts allows benefit reductions to proceed.

    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 (4)

Nay (93)

Not voting or present (3)

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