Senate Roll Call 123, 97th Congress · May 20, 1981
TO AMEND H. R. 3512, BY PROVIDING THAT CONGRESS SHALL NOT PRECIPTOUSLY AND UNFAIRLY REDUCE EARLY RETIREES' BENEFITS, AND THAT CONGRESS WILL ENACT REFORMS NECESSARY TO ENSURE THE SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM SOLVENCY OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM, BUT 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 PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 5
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 expansion”
model(0.85): Adopting language blocking early retiree benefit reductions protects 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 (96)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- 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.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (4)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
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