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Senate Roll Call 660, 97th Congress · May 27, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 5922 BY LIMITING THE DEDUCTION OF LIVING EXPENSES BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND BY ELIMINATING THE PROVISION WHICH ALLOWS SUCH DEDUCTION WITHOUT SUBSTANTIATION OF SUCH EXPENSES FOR TAXABLE YEARS BEGINING AFTER 1981. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 32

70 yea · 23 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 3 nay
Republican29 yea · 21 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5922 ↗

Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Limiting member tax deductions restricts tax expenditures and reduces fiscal expansion.

    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 (72)

Nay (24)

Not voting or present (4)

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