Senate Roll Call 191, 97th Congress · July 16, 1981
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 266, BY INDEXING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954, TO INSURE THAT INFLATION WILL NOT RESULT IN TAX INCREASES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 8
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.
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Indexing tax brackets prevents inflation-driven tax increases, cutting taxes.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Indexing income taxes prevents bracket creep, reducing federal revenue collection.
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 (57)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- 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
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (40)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- 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
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (3)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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