Senate Roll Call 221, 100th Congress · July 31, 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 CONRAD, ND AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 324, THE TEMPORARY DEBT-LIMIT INCREASE. THE AMENDMENT WOULD REDUCE TOTAL ALLOCATIONS FOR ALL FUNCTIONS BY TWO PERCENT.
36 yea · 53 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 28 nay
Republican17 yea · 25 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 (0.85) Motion to waive budget rules is a floor procedure.
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 (36)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (53)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (11)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid 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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