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Vote Data for HR9346 (95th Congress)


Date: December 15, 1977

Subject: Social Security Taxes

Description: Adoption of the conference report on the bill to raise Social Security payroll taxes above existing scheduled levels, by increasing tax rates and the taxable wage base for both employees and employers beginning in 1979, to correct inflation adjustment procedures and make other changes in benefit schedules, and to authorize additional funding and new options for state welfare programs. This is estimated cost to the taxpayers $227 billion over the next decade.

Result: Conference Report Agreed to, 56-21

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Voted in Favor:

Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Dick Clark (D-IA)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
William Hathaway (D-ME)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Kaneaster Hodges (D-AR)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
William Lloyd Scott (R-VA)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Voted Against:

James Abourezk (D-SD)  
Dewey Bartlett (R-OK)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Floyd Haskell (D-CO)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Did Not Vote:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Wendell Anderson (D-MN)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

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