Senate Roll Call 94, 97th Congress · May 8, 1981
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 19, BY AMENDING THE THURMOND AMENDMENT (SEE VOTE 95, BELOW) WITH AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD RETAIN THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF CALCULATING COST-OF-LIVING (COLAS) IN FEDERAL RETIREMENT PROGRAMS, THEREBY REVERSING A BUDGET COMMITTEE PROPOSAL DESIGNED TO HOLD DOWN COLA COSTS.(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): Voting yes retains higher COLA calculations, reversing proposed budget spending cuts.
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 (43)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (50)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- 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
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- 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
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (7)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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