Senate Roll Call 947, 97th Congress · December 18, 1982
TO TABLE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH THE FORD AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 631 WAS REJECTED. THE FORD AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO CERTAIN RAILROAD WORKERS, AND IT MAKES THE NECESSARY APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY SUCH COMPENSATION. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 43
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 1983
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 restraint”
model(0.95): Tabling reconsideration of a rejected spending amendment prevents funding expansion.
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)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (46)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- 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
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- 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
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
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