Senate Roll Call 98, 97th Congress · May 11, 1981
TO AMEND S. CON. RES. 19 TO REDUCE FUNDING FOR WATER PROJECTS BY $200 MILLION, AND INCREASE FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION AND THE GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM BY $100 MILLION EACH. (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.
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.90): Increases funding for the federal Guaranteed Student Loan program.
Tagged by: keyword:student loan
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Equal spending cuts and increases produce a net-neutral transfer between accounts.
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 (30)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Henry John Heinz III
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (57)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- 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
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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