Senate Roll Call 250, 97th Congress · August 3, 1981
TO RECOMMIT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4242, ECONOMIC RECOVERY TAX ACT OF 1981. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
Policy area: Taxation — 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 “Raise revenue”
model(0.90): Recommitting the tax cut conference report kills tax cuts, keeping revenues higher.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (23)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (61)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (16)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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