Senate Roll Call 290, 97th Congress · September 28, 1981
TO TABLE THE HART AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 265. THE HART AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT THE INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RATE REDUCTIONS PROVIDED BY THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY TAX ACT OF 1981 SHALL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL THE FEDERAL BUDGET IS BALANCED. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 10
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A joint resolution to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
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.
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment conditioning tax cuts on a balanced budget allows tax cuts to proceed.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.80): Tabling a balanced budget requirement for tax cuts allows deficit-expanding tax cuts.
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 (75)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (13)
Not voting or present (12)
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John W. WarnerDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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