Senate Roll Call 783, 97th Congress · August 3, 1982
TO AMEND S. J. RES. 58 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE BIDEN SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT TOTAL OUTLAYS OF THE UNITED STATES DURING ANY FISCAL YEAR SHALL NOT INCREASE AT A RATE GREATER THAN THE RATE OF INCREASE IN THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT IN THE LAST CALENDAR YEAR ENDING BEFORE SUCH FISCAL YEAR, UNLESS BY A THREE-FITHS VOTE IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, CONGRESS SHALL HAVE AUTHORIZED A SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF OUTLAYS. THE BIDEN SUBSTITUTE ALSO PROVIDES THAT THE ALLOWABLE RATE OF INCREASE IN OUTLAYS FOR ANY FISCAL YEAR SET BY SUBSECTION (A) SHALL BE REDUCED, IF THE RATE OF INFLATION IN THE PRECEEDING CALENDAR YEAR IS GREATER THAN 6 PERCENT, BY ONE QUARTER OF THE AMOUNT BY WHICH THE INFLATION RATE EXCEEDS 6 PERCENT. AND, FINALLY, THE BIDEN SUBSTITUTE PROVIDES THAT TOTAL OUTLAYS SHALL INCLUDE ALL OUTLAYS OF THE UNITED STATES EXCEPT THOSE FOR REPAYMENT OF DEBT PRINCIPAL. 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(0.85): Caps spending growth to the rate of GNP growth, imposing fiscal discipline.
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 (10)
Nay (85)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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