Senate Roll Call 211, 100th Congress · July 23, 1987
TO AMEND HJ RES 324, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT, TO CHANGE THE MAXIMUM FEDERAL DEFICIT ALLOWABLE, INSTITUTE AN AUTOMATIC PROCEDURE FOR SPENDING CUTS, AND ALTER OTHER BUDGET PROCEDURES.
25 yea · 71 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 25 nay
Republican0 yea · 46 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Instituting automatic spending cuts and deficit limits promotes fiscal restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit
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 (25)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- David Hampton Pryor
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (71)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- 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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