Senate Roll Call 111, 100th Congress · May 14, 1987
TO ADOPT HR 2360, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT EXTENSION, A BILL TO TEMPORARILY INCREASE THE LIMIT ON THE DEBT CEILING.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Raising the debt limit allows for increased spending and fiscal expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (58)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (36)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (6)
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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