Senate Roll Call 188, 97th Congress · July 16, 1981
TO TABLE THE MOYNIHAN AMENDMENT TO H.J. RES. 266, THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY TAX ACT OF 1981 PROVIDING FOR REDUCTIONS AND REDUCED REVENUES FOR FISCAL YEARS 1981-1984 AND A REDUCTION IN INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RATES OF 5 PERCENT EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 1981, OF AN ADDITIONAL 10 PERCENT EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1982, AND AN ADDITIONAL 10 PERCENT ON JULY 1, 1983, WHICH PROVIDES FOR BORROWING BY THE OLD AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE TRUST FUND FROM THE DISABILITY INSURANCE TRUST FUND OR HOSPITAL INSURANCE TRUST FUND. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Trust fund borrowing provisions do not alter healthcare coverage rules.
Tagged by: keyword:hospital
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment addresses trust fund transfers rather than tax rates or revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Interfund borrowing between trust funds is a net-neutral transfer between federal accounts.
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 (51)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (46)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (3)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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