Senate Roll Call 233, 100th Congress · August 7, 1987
TO PASS HR 3190, THE TEMPORARY DEBT-LIMIT INCREASE, A BILL TO INCREASE THE FEDERAL DEBT CEILING FROM $2.1 TRILLION TO $2.352 TRILLION UNTIL SEPTEMBER 23, 1987.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
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 debt limit allows fiscal expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (51)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (39)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Jeff Bingaman
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (10)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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