Senate Roll Call 282, 97th Congress · September 24, 1981
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 325, TO ADJUST PAY FOR CAREER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SO THAT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN EACH GRADE LEVEL COMPENSATION IN THE EXECUTIVE PAY SCHEDULE IS DECREASED UP TO THAT OF THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS. (MOTION PASSED) 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Increasing pay for executive branch career employees expands federal payroll spending.
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)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (46)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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