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Senate Roll Call 793, 97th Congress · August 5, 1982

TO AMEND THE BOREN AMENDMENT TO S. 2774 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE BOREN AMENDMENT REQUIRES THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO IMPLEMENT DIVERSION PROGRAMS FOR THE 1983 CORPS OF WHEAT, CORN AND OTHER FEED GRAINS. THE HELMS AMENDMENT MAKES A STRAIGHTFORWARD REQUIREMENT FOR A PAID LAND DIVERSION ON 1983 CROPS. IT REQUIRES THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO OFFER TO PRODUCERS A PAYMENT RATE THAT IS SUFFICIENT TO ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN SUCH A PROGRAM. THE HELMS AMENDMENT MAKES THE PROVISIONS OF THE PROGRAM FLEXIBLE SO THAT THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF FARMERS IN SUMMER FALLOW AREAS (I.E., ARID REGIONS OF THE CUNTRY WHERE FIELDS ARE PLANTED ONLY IN ALTERNATE YEARS, SO AS TO MAXIMIZE MOISTURE ACCUMULATION IN THE SOIL) ARE ACCOMODATED. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 37

38 yea · 60 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 40 nay
Republican33 yea · 19 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2774 ↗

Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Requiring paid land diversion with sufficient payment rates increases agricultural federal spending.

    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 (38)

Nay (60)

Not voting or present (2)

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