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| 1983-03-22 | Interest and Dividend Withholding [HR1900] | Agreed To (54-43) |
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| Moynihan (D-NY) motion to table (kill) the Melcher (D-MT) motion to waive provisions of the Congressional Budget Act that would bar consideration of the Melcher amendment to delay tax withholding on interest and dividend income. | |||||
| 1983-03-22 | Social Security Payroll Tax Increases [HR1900] | Rejected (27-67) |
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| Armstrong (R-CO) amendment to eliminate the payroll tax increases in the Social Security bailout bill. | |||||
| 1983-03-22 | Make-Work Jobs [HR1718] | Agreed To (82-15) |
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| Adoption of the conference report on the bill to provide $15,589,034,000 in fiscal 1983 supplemental appropriations, including $4.6 billion for "emergency" jobs and recession relief. | |||||
| 1983-03-23 | Social Security Bailout Bill [HR1900] | Passed (88-9) |
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| Passage of the bill to overhaul the Social Security system, to revamp the way the federal government reimburses hospitals for Medicare, to extend the federal supplemental unemployment benefit program for six months and to increase Supplemental Security Income benefits. This bill included $100 billion in increased Social Security taxes. | |||||
| 1983-04-14 | Adelman Nomination | Confirmed (57-42) |
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| Confirmation of President Reagan's nomination of Kenneth L. Adelman of Virginia to be director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. | |||||
| 1983-05-04 | Freeze Domestic Spending / Increase Defense [SCONRES27] | Defeated (23-75) |
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| Hatch (R-UT) amendment to freeze spending on domestic programs at current levels, to allow a 7.5 percent growth in defense spending for fiscal 1984 and to require no new taxes. | |||||
| 1983-06-28 | Human Life Federalism Amendment [SJRES3] | Defeated (49-50) |
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| Passage of the joint resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution that would overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal. | |||||
| 1983-06-29 | Cap Tax Cuts [HR1183] | Defeated (45-55) |
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| Democrats attempted tax hikes through "capping" the scheduled July 1, 1983 tax cut at $720 per return. | |||||
| 1983-07-14 | B-1 Bomber Funding [S675] | Agreed To (56-41) |
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| Tower (R-TX) motion to table (kill) the Nunn (D-GA) amendment to deny authorization for a multi-year procurement contract for critically needed B-1 bombers. | |||||
| 1983-07-16 | Cruise Missile Freeze [S675] | Agreed To (47-40) |
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| Tower (R-TX) motion to table (kill) the Mathias (R-MD) amendment expressing the sense of Congress that the President should, as soon as practicable, make every reasonable effort to include in the START talks with the Soviet Union the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile with a view to complete elimination of the weapon by both the United States and the Soviet Union, and should propose a joint moratorium on deployment of the missile for the duration of the START negotiations. | |||||
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"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |