Senate Roll Call 286, 97th Congress · September 24, 1981
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 325, BY LIMITING TO 8,037 THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME SENATE EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEES OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL ASSIGNED TO THE SENATE, AND PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR THE PLANNING OF ANY NEW SENATE OFFICE BUILDING. (CONTINUED) (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 restraint”
model(0.90): Capping Senate employees and banning funds for a new office building restrains 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 (77)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (15)
Not voting or present (8)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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