Senate Roll Call 477, 97th Congress · December 10, 1981
TO AMEND H.J.RES.370 TO PROVIDE THAT THE SENATE STRONGLY REAFFIRMS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN IMPROVING HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AMERICANS, AND THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN DISTRESSED URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES BY (1)SUPPORTING COST-EFFECTIVE AND MEANINGFUL FEDERAL EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE UNMET HOUSING NEEDS OF LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME PERSONS, THE ELDERLY, THE HANDICAPPED, AND OTHERS WITH SPECIALIZED HOUSING PROBLEMS, (2)PRESERVING THE CAPACITY OF FEDERAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE AND SECONDARY MARKET PROGRAMS TO PERFORM THEIR TRADITIONAL ROLES IN SERVING POTENTIAL HOMEBUYERS, AND (3)MAINTAINING AN IMPORTANT ROLE FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM AND THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACTION GRANT PROGRAM IN ANSWERING PRESSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEEDS. (MOTION FAILED). SEE NOTE(S) 21
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A joint resolution making further 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Non-binding language reaffirming federal housing support lacks direct, quantifiable fiscal impact.
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 (40)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (55)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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