Senate Roll Call 41, 98th Congress · March 22, 1983
TO AMEND H.R. 1900 TO ELIMINATE THE PAYROLL TAX INCREASES IN THE BILL. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 2
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Social Security Amendments of 1983
Policy area: Social Welfare — 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.
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Eliminating payroll tax increases cuts taxes relative to the measure.
Tagged by: keyword:payroll tax
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (27)
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (67)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (6)
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
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