Senate Roll Call 92, 97th Congress · May 7, 1981
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 19, BY SUBSTITUTING THE THURMOND AMENDMENT (TO INCREASE FUNDS FOR VETERANS PROGRAMS) WITH AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD INCREASE BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION AND BUDGET OUTLAYS FOR FISCAL 1982. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 3
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the recommended Congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984, and revising the Congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1981.
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): Increases budget authority and outlays for veterans programs.
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 (40)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (54)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- 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
Not voting or present (6)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- John W. WarnerDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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