Senate Roll Call 407, 100th Congress · December 10, 1987
TO AMEND S 1920, THE FISCAL 1988 BUDGET RECONCILIATION, TO STRIKE PROVISIONS ESTABLISHING FEES FOR NEW BROADCAST LICENSES AND PENALTIES FOR BROADCASTERS WHO DO NOT ADHERE TO THE "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE", WITH BOTH REVENUES FUNDING PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Striking fee revenue and public broadcasting spending moves spending and revenue in opposite directions.
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 (66)
- 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
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- 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
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (28)
- Brockman Adams
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (6)
- William Lester ArmstrongPresent
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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