Senate Roll Call 772, 97th Congress · August 3, 1982
TO AMEND S. J. RES. 58 TO REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A BALANCED BUDGET FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR TO THE CONGRESS, AND TO INCLUDE WITH SUCH BUDGET A STATEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE MONETARY AND CREDIT AGGREGATES. (MOTION FAILED) 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 restraint”
model(0.90): Requires the President to submit a balanced budget, promoting fiscal restraint.
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 (36)
- Mark Andrews
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (58)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (6)
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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