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Senate Roll Call 217, 100th Congress · July 31, 1987

TO AMEND THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 324, THE TEMPORARY DEBT LIMIT INCREASE, TO ESTABLISH A CEILING OF $140 BILLION FOR THE FEDERAL DEFICIT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1988 AND A CEILING OF $120 BILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 1989 WITH AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS IF THOSE LIMITS ARE EXCEEDED BY $5 BILLION.

41 yea · 52 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 8 nay
Republican0 yea · 45 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): Establishing deficit ceilings with automatic spending cuts enforces 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 (41)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (6)

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