Senate Roll Call 350, 97th Congress · November 3, 1981
TO AMEND H.R.4209, A BILL APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL 1982 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TO STRIKE THE LANGUAGE WHICH STATES THAT THE CORPORATION (AMTRAK) SHALL PROVIDE RAIL SERVICE BETWEN WASHINGTON,D.C. AND CHICAGO VIA CINCINNATI. (MOTION FAILED).
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982
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): Striking a required Amtrak rail service route reduces mandated operational expenditures.
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 (34)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (54)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (12)
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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