Senate Roll Call 785, 97th Congress · August 4, 1982
TO PASS S. J. RES. 58. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED) 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(0.95): Passes a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, enforcing strict 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 (69)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- 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.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- 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
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- 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
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (31)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (0)
None
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