Senate Roll Call 406, 100th Congress · December 10, 1987
TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO THE PRESSLER, SD AMENDMENT TO THE BYRD, WV AMENDMENT TO S 1920, THE FISCAL 1988 BUDGET RECONCILIATION, WHICH WOULD PERMIT STATE AGENCIES TO REQUEST FEDERAL FUNDS TO COVER FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN DEFAULTS WITHOUT USING MORE STATE FUNDS.
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.
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.90): Waiving the Budget Act permits federal funding to cover student loan defaults, expanding federal responsibility.
Tagged by: keyword:student loan
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Waiving the Budget Act allows spending federal funds to cover student loan defaults.
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 (23)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (72)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Malcolm Wallop
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (5)
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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