Senate Roll Call 28, 97th Congress · March 12, 1981
TO AMEND S. 414, PERMITTING MERCHANTS TO ALLOW UNLIMITED DISCOUNTS TO CASH PAYING CUSTOMERS BY PERMITTING SURCHARGES ON CREDIT CARD CUSTOMERS. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Cash Discount Act
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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.
- Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Deregulate”
model(0.75): Permitting merchants to impose credit card surcharges removes regulatory prohibitions.
Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector
Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (41)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (56)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (3)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
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