Senate Roll Call 216, 100th Congress · July 31, 1987
TO AMEND HJ RES 324, THE TEMPORARY DEBT LIMIT INCREASE, TO INCREASE THE CEILING ON THE FEDERAL DEBT TO $2.8 TRILLION FROM $2.3 TRILLION, UNTIL MAY 1, 1989.
58 yea · 35 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 18 nay
Republican28 yea · 18 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 expansion”
model(0.95): Raising the federal debt ceiling allows fiscal expansion.
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 (58)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (36)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (6)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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