Senate Roll Call 523, 99th Congress · June 19, 1986
TO TABLE THE HARKIN, IA) AMENDMENT TO HR 3838, TAX REFORM ACT, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE FOR THE INDEXING OF TRADE OR BUSINESS PROPERTY SOLD BY INDIVIDUALS AGE 55 OR OLDER AND IMPOSE A TAX ON MERGERS INVOLVING CORPORATIONS OF MORE THAN $250,000,000.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Tax Reform Act of 1986
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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Amendment contains both tax cuts through indexing and tax increases on corporate mergers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
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 (60)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (35)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
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