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| 1981-03-10 | Energy Price Controls [S573] | Rejected (24-68) |
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| Metzenbaum (D-OH) amendment to nullify President Reagan's Jan. 28 order terminating immediately all remaining controls on oil and gasoline. The bill, to extend through Sept. 30, 1981, antitrust exemptions for oil companies participating in the programs of the International Energy Agency, subsequently was passed by voice vote. | |||||
| 1981-05-07 | Legal Services Corporation [SCONRES19] | Rejected (24-72) |
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| Hatch (R-UT) amendment to delete $100 million in budget authority and budget outlays for fiscal 1982 from the administration of justice function in order to delete funds for the Legal Services Corporation. | |||||
| 1981-05-20 | Social Security Reform [HR3512] | Agreed To (49-48) |
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| Hatfield (R-OR) motion to table (kill) the Moynihan (D-NY) amendment stating the sense of the Senate in opposition to President Reagan's proposed changes in the Social Security system. | |||||
| 1981-05-21 | Medicaid Abortions [HR3512] | Agreed To (52-43) |
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| Helms (R-NC) motion to table (kill) the Appropriations Committee amendment to delete House-passed language prohibiting Medicaid funding of abortions except when needed to save the mother's life. | |||||
| 1981-05-21 | Food Stamps [HR3512] | Agreed To (50-45) |
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| Abdnor (D-SD) amendment to add $538 million for the food stamp program and $110 million for child nutrition programs. | |||||
| 1981-06-10 | Food Stamp Contributions [S1007] | Rejected (33-66) |
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| Symms (R-ID) amendment to require households to pay the food stamp issuing agency some of their own money, up to 30 percent of their income, in exchange for a larger value of food stamps. The amendment exempted very poor households and those containing an elderly or disabled member. | |||||
| 1981-07-10 | Busing Filibuster [S951] | Rejected (38-48) |
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| Baker (R-TN) motion to invoke cloture (and thus limit debate) on the bill to authorize programs for the Justice Department in fiscal 1982. This was an effort to choke off the Weicker filibuster, which was launched after Senator Helms offered an anti-busing provision. | |||||
| 1981-07-16 | Tax Indexing [HJRES266] | Agreed To (57-40) |
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| Finance Committee amendment to require, beginning in 1985, that individual income taxes be adjusted, or indexed, annually to offset the effects of inflation. This would prevent the federal government from profiting from higher wages caused by inflation. | |||||
| 1981-07-23 | Limit Reagan Tax Cuts [HJRES266] | Rejected (42-57) |
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| Bradley (D-NJ) amendment to provide a three-year personal tax cut targeted to help only those individuals earning under $50,000. This amendment was introduced in order to scrap the Reagan tax plan. | |||||
| 1981-09-24 | El Salvador [S1196] | Rejected (47-51) |
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| Helms (R-NC) substitute to the Lugar (R-IN) amendment. The Helms amendment would have transformed proposed conditions on U.S. military aid to El Salvador into a statement of the sense of Congress that U.S. military aid should be used to encourage a peaceful and democratic solution of the civil war there, protect human rights and promote economic and political reforms. | |||||
| 1981-09-30 | Aid to Angola [S1196] | Agreed To (66-29) |
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| Percy (R-IL) motion to table (kill) the Tsongas (D-MA) amendment to repeal the ban on U.S. military factions on Angola by the earliest of the following dates: the date by which the President determined that an effective cease-fire was in place in Namibia and that preparations for internationally supervised elections in Namibia were in place; or March 31, 1985. | |||||
| 1981-10-27 | Interior Appropriations [HR4035] | Rejected (35-61) |
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| Mattingly (R-GA) amendment to reduce appropriations in the bill by 5 percent. No single account would be reduced by more than 9 percent. | |||||
| 1981-10-28 | Stop AWAC Sales to Saudi Araia [HCONRES194] | Defeated (48-52) |
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| Adoption of the concurrent resolution disapproving the proposal by President Reagan to sell Saudi Arabia an $8.5 billion package of military equipment consisting of five E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) radar planes, 1,177 AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, 101 sets of conformal fuel tanks for F-15 fighter planes and six to eight KC-707 tanker aircraft. This was a crucial vote for the Reagan administration's foreign policy. | |||||
| 1981-10-30 | Agriculture Appropriations [HR4119] | Rejected (32-51) |
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| Mattingly (R-GA) amendment to reduce by an average of 2.6 percent (and no more than 5 percent for any single program) appropriations in the bill except for programs whose payments are required by law. | |||||
| 1981-11-03 | Transportation Appropriations [HR4209] | Rejected (39-52) |
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| Mattingly (R-GA) amendment to cut the bill's total appropriations by 4.1 percent. No account would be cut by more than 7 percent, and the Coast Guard would be excluded from any cut. | |||||
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"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |