Senate Roll Call 764, 97th Congress · July 28, 1982
TO AMEND S. J. RES. 58 TO PERMIT CONGRESS TO USE FISCAL POLICY TO PREVENT UNEMPLOYMENT FROM EXCEEDING 10 PERCENT OR 11 MILLION UNEMPLOYED, WHICHEVER IS GREATER. SEE NOTE(S) 36
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution altering Federal fiscal decision-making procedures.
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(0.95): Permitting fiscal policy tools to address unemployment allows deficit spending 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 (25)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (68)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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