Senate Roll Call 304, 97th Congress · September 30, 1981
TO ACCEPT A TECHNICAL CHANGE IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 325. THE CHANGE WOULD REMOVE THE EXISTING $3,000 CAP ON BUSINESS-RELATED TAX DEDUCTIONS CLAIMED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHILE AWAY FROM HOME. (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): Removing the cap on member tax deductions increases tax benefits and fiscal outlay.
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 (48)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- 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
- 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
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (44)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- 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
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- 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 (8)
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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