Senate Roll Call 635, 97th Congress · May 21, 1982

TO TABLE THE DOMENICI SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO THE SASSER AMENDMENT TO S. CON. RES. 92. THE SASSER AMENDMENT RESTORES ANNUAL COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS TO RAILROAD RETIREES. THE DOMENICI SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT IS A PERFECTING AMENDMENT WHICH MAKES ROOM FOR A 7.4 PERCENT COLA IN 1982 IN THE RAILROAD RETIRMENT PROGRAM. AND, ADDITIONALLY, THE DOMENICI AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR A 4 PERCENT COLA'S IN 1983 AND 1984 WHILE THE SASSER AMENDMENT WOULD GIVE THE FULL CPI. THIS AMENDMENT WOULD MAINTAIN A CONSISTENT POSITION IN THE OUTYEARS BETWEEN RAILROAD RETIREMENT COLA'S AND OTHER COLA'S IN THE BUDGET RESOLUTION. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 31

53 yea · 44 nay1 not voting or present

Democrat46 yea · 0 nay

Republican8 yea · 44 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the recommended congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1983, 1984, and 1985, and revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 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 expansion”
model(0.85): Tabling a substitute amendment that capped COLAs rejects spending restraint in favor of higher spending.
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 (54)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (1)

Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote

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