Senate Roll Call 639, 97th Congress · May 21, 1982
TO TABLE THE HAWKINS AMENDMENT TO S. CON. 92 TO ADD COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES FOR MILITARY AND CIVILIAN RETIREES AND PROVIDE FOR AN EQUIVALENT DECREASE IN DEFENSE SPENDING. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 31
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The amendment offsets COLA increases with equivalent defense spending cuts, making it spending-neutral.
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 (52)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- 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
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (44)
- James Abdnor
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (4)
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Present
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
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