Senate Roll Call 195, 97th Congress · July 16, 1981
TO AMEND THE BENTSEN AMENDMENT TO H.J. RES. 266, TO LIMIT THE EXCLUSION ON SAVINGS CERTIFICATES TO CERTIFICATES, THE DEPOSITS ON WHICH ARE USED FOR QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY FINANCING, BY LOWERING THE REINVESTMENT PERCENAGE FROM 75 PERCENT TO 50 PERCENT. (MOTION FAILED) 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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.90): Lowering the reinvestment percentage limits the tax exclusion, preserving revenue.
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 (33)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (63)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- 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.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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