Senate Roll Call 26, 99th Congress · April 3, 1985
TO AMEND HR 1866 IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, TO EXTEND THE FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL COMPENSATION ACT OF 1982 UNTIL THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 1985.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to phase out the Federal supplemental compensation program.
Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.
- Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”
model(0.95): Extending supplemental unemployment benefits prioritizes worker compensation.
Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (35)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
Nay (58)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (7)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
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