Senate Roll Call 404, 100th Congress · December 10, 1987
TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO THE BYRD, WV AMENDMENT TO S 1920, THE FISCAL 1988 BUDGET RECONCILIATION, WHICH WOULD FREEZE ALL BUDGET AUTHORITY AT 1987 LEVELS, AND THEN SELECTIVELY RAISE CERTAIN 1988 APPROPRIATIONS TO LEVELS AGREED TO AT THE NOVEMBER 20 BUDGET SUMMIT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
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(0.85): Tabling kills an amendment proposing a budget freeze, allowing higher spending levels to proceed.
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 (72)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (24)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (4)
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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