Senate Roll Call 294, 97th Congress · September 29, 1981
TO TABLE THE EAGLETON AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 265. THE AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES A TRUST FUND TO BE FINANCED FROM REVENUES FROM THE REPEAL OF REDUCTIONS IN THE WINDFALL PROFIT TAX CONTAINED IN THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY TAX ACT OF 1981 AND WHICH IS USED AS A RESERVE FOR THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND. (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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment creating a reserve trust fund blocks new spending reserves.
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 (68)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- 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
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (32)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Gary Warren Hart
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (0)
None
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