Senate Roll Call 18, 98th Congress · March 11, 1983
TO AMEND THE FORD AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1718 WITH A PERFECTING AMENDMENT. THE FORD AMENDMENT AMENDS THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT TO PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS TO CERTAIN EMPLOYEES WITH LESS THAN 10 YEARS OF SERVICES. THE NICKLES AMENDMENT IS A PERFECTING AMENDMENT WHICH REQUIRES THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND TO PAY FOR 13 (NOT 10 WEEKS AS IN THE FORD AMENDMENT) WEEKS OF BENEFITS WHILE THE FORD AMENDMENT WOULD REQUIRE THE ADDITIONAL BENEFITS TO BE FINANCED BY THE UNITED STATES TREASURY. (MOTION FAILED) 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Shifts benefit funding source between accounts without clear net fiscal 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 (30)
- James Abdnor
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Nay (60)
- 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
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- 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
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (10)
- 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
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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