Senate Roll Call 193, 97th Congress · July 16, 1981
TO TABLE THE GARN AMENDMENT TO THE BENTSEN AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 266 TO INCLUDE WITHIN THE MEANING OF "QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL LOAN" ANY LOAN FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES, ANY LOAN FOR ACQUISITION OF AN AUTOMOBILE, ANY SMALL BUSINESS LOAN, AND ANY STUDENT LOAN. THE BENTSEN AMENDMENT LIMITED THE EXCLUSION ON THE SAVINGS CERTIFICATES TO CERTIFICATES, THE DEPOSITS ON WHICH ARE USED FOR QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY FINANCING. (MOTION FAILED0 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.
- EducationA yea counts toward “Reduce federal role”
model(0.85): Tabling the amendment kills the inclusion of student loans in tax-favored savings provisions.
Tagged by: keyword:student loan
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling an expansion of tax-exempt loan categories prevents revenue loss.
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 (47)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (48)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- 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
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- 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 (5)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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