Senate Roll Call 494, 97th Congress · December 16, 1981
TO PASS H.R. 5159, A BILL PROVIDING FOR A TAX INCREASE ON UNDERGROUND AND SURFACE COAL TO RESTORE THE BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND. (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 (0.80) A coal tax designated for black lung benefits addresses trust fund solvency rather than climate policy.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”
model(0.95): Passing a bill to increase coal taxes raises federal 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 (64)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- 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
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- 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 (30)
- James Abdnor
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- 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 (6)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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