Senate Roll Call 224, 100th Congress · July 31, 1987
TO ADOPT HJ RES 324, THE TEMPORARY DEBT-LIMIT INCREASE, A RESOLUTION TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM FEDERAL DEBT FROM $2.3 TRILLION TO $2.8 TRILLION, AND TO INSTITUTE A DEADLINE FOR ERASING THE FEDERAL DEFICIT BY 1992 WITH AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS IF SPENDING LEVELS EXCEED SET TARGETS.
54 yea · 31 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 21 nay
Republican29 yea · 12 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 (0.90) The measure increases the debt ceiling while mandating spending cuts, moving both ways.
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 (55)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (33)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
Not voting or present (12)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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