Senate Roll Call 262, 100th Congress · September 23, 1987
TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON HJ RES 324, THE PERMANENT DEBT LIMIT EXTENSION, A BILL TO RAISE THE FEDERAL DEBT CEILING TO $2.8 TRILLION, INSTITUTE AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS, AND ESTABLISH MAXIMUM DEFICIT LEVELS.
64 yea · 34 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 21 nay
Republican33 yea · 13 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(0.95): Adopting the report raises the federal debt limit to $2.8 trillion.
Tagged by: keyword:debt ceiling,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 (64)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Nay (34)
- Brockman Adams
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (2)
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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