Senate Roll Call 210, 100th Congress · July 23, 1987
TO WAIVE THE PROHIBITION OF THE 1985 BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT REQUIRING BUDGET LEGISLATION TO BE REPORTED BY THE BUDGET COMMITTEE, WITH RESPECT TO THE CHILES, FL AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 324, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT.
71 yea · 25 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 15 nay
Republican36 yea · 10 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A motion to waive the Budget Act is a procedural vote.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit,balanced budget
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 (71)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (25)
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (4)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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