Senate Roll Call 50, 102nd Congress · April 25, 1991
To reduce budget authority for defense spending by 2 percent. — (SENATE REJECTED THE SIMON AMENDMENT NO. 82, REDUCING BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR DEFENSE SPENDING BY 2 PERCENT.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the Congressional Budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996.
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 restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing defense budget authority by 2 percent reduces spending.
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 (25)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (70)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (4)
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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