Senate Roll Call 219, 100th Congress · July 31, 1987
TO TABLE THE EVANS, WA AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 324, THE TEMPORARY DEBT-LIMIT INCREASE, WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TO VETO INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS AND AMENDMENTS IN AN OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR A TWO YEAR PERIOD.
43 yea · 49 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 9 nay
Republican3 yea · 40 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(0.90): Tabling a line-item veto provision blocks a mechanism for spending restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit,appropriations,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 (44)
- Max Baucus
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (49)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (7)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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