Senate Roll Call 168, 100th Congress · June 27, 1987
TO AMEND S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO REQUIRE THAT CONGRESS PREPARE AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRING A BALANCED FEDERAL BUDGET NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 1, 1987 AND THAT THE PRESIDENT SUBMIT TO CONGRESS A BALANCED BUDGET BY SEPTEMBER 15, 1987.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International 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.
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Balanced budget requirement is fiscal policy, not trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Mandating a balanced budget requires fiscal restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget,omnibus
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 (59)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Mitch McConnell
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (11)
Not voting or present (30)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Christopher S. BondDid not vote
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
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