Senate Roll Call 615, 104th Congress · January 26, 1996
To increase the public debt limit. — (SENATE TABLED MOYNIHAN AMENDMENT NO. 3120, TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I
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(0.90): Tabling a motion to raise the debt limit blocks fiscal expansion, favoring restraint.
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 (46)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (45)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (8)
- Robert F. BennettDid not vote
- Ben Nighthorse CampbellDid not vote
- Daniel CoatsDid not vote
- Duncan McLauchlin FairclothDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Jon KylDid not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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