Senate Roll Call 560, 98th Congress · June 29, 1984
TO TABLE THE MELCHER PERFECTING AMENDMENT TO H. CON. RES. 328. H. CON. RES. CORRECTS TECHNICAL ERRORS IN THE ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 4170. H.R. 4170 IS THE OMNIBUS DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT OF 1984. THE MELCHER PERFECTING AMENDMENT LIMITS IMPUTED INTEREST RATES FOR THE SALE OR EXCHANGE OF FARMS AND RANCHES OR SMALL BUSINESS UP TO $500,000, OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY UP TO $250,000. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Deficit Reduction Act of 1984
Policy area: Taxation — 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 “Raise revenue”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that limits imputed interest rates blocks a tax reduction for property sales.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) This amendment concerns imputed interest rates and tax law, not budget spending policy.
Tagged by: keyword:deficit reduction,omnibus
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)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (23)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- John Melcher
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (47)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Alan John DixonDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Roger William JepsenDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Don NicklesDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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