Senate Roll Call 17, 98th Congress · March 11, 1983
TO AMEND H.R. 1718 BY AMENDING THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT TO PROVIDE TEN WEEKS OF SUPPLEMENTAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS TO RAILROAD WORKERS WITH LESS THAN 10 YEARS OF SERVICE. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 1
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 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 expansion”
model(0.90): Providing supplemental unemployment benefits increases spending.
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 (70)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (18)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (12)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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