Senate Roll Call 225, 97th Congress · July 27, 1981
TO TABLE NUNN AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 266 THAT WOULD INSURE THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION FILED BY INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYERS WITH THE IRS AND INSURE THE EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL AND STATE CRIMINAL LAWS AND THE EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. (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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Taxpayer confidentiality provisions do not directly alter tax rates or revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:irs
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Taxpayer information confidentiality and law enforcement measures do not move along the fiscal budget axis.
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 (28)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (67)
- James Abdnor
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
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