Senate Roll Call 865, 97th Congress · September 29, 1982
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 599. THE HELMS AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT SUCH FUNDS AS MAY BE NECESSARY OUT OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION BE USED BY THE COMMISSION TO WRITE REGULATIONS REGARDING USE OF UNION DUES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 41
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) FEC regulations regarding union dues are a political/regulatory matter, not a fiscal policy issue.
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 (63)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (37)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (0)
None
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