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Senate Roll Call 863, 97th Congress · September 29, 1982

TO AMEND WITH A PERFECTING AMENDMENT THE METZENBAUM AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 599. THE FIRST METZENBAUM AMENDMENT ADDS FUNDS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, AND SUSPENDS UNTIL THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS BELOW 8.7 PERCENT, PROVISIONS OF THE 1981 RECONCILIATION BILL THAT DENY BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD EXHAUSTED THEIR REGULAR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 41

47 yea · 51 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 4 nay
Republican6 yea · 47 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 599 ↗

A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1983, and for other purposes.

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): Adding funds for unemployment benefits increases 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 (47)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (1)

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