Senate Roll Call 493, 97th Congress · December 16, 1981
TO AGREE TO THE DOLE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H.R.5159, A BILL PROVIDING FOR A TAX INCREASE ON UNDERGROUND AND SURFACE COAL TO RESTORE THE BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND. THE DOLE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT MAKES A FEW TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGES TO THE COMMITTEE BILL S. 1957, AND IT DELETES ONE FINANCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO THE BILL THAT WOULD LIMIT FUTURE BORROWING BY THE BLACK LUNG TRUST FUND FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF THE TREASURY. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1981
Policy area: Taxation — 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.
- Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Increasing coal taxes to fund black lung disability benefits is a health trust measure, not climate action.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”
model(0.95): Adopting an amendment to raise taxes on coal increases tax revenue.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (56)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (36)
- James Abdnor
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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