Senate Roll Call 281, 97th Congress · September 24, 1981
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 325, TO PROVIDE THAT THE DOLLAR LIMITS ON TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR LIVING EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHILE AWAY FROM HOME SHALL BE THE SAME AS SUCH LIMITS FOR BUSINESSMEN AND OTHER PRIVATE CITIZENS. (MOTION PASSSED) SEE NOTE(S) 9
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1982, and for other purposes.
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Adjusting tax deduction limits for congressional living expenses is unclear on broader fiscal policy.
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 (50)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (49)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- 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
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (1)
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
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