Senate Roll Call 637, 104th Congress · March 7, 1996
To increase the public debt limit. — H.R.3021 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT, TEMPORARY EXTENSION (PUB. L. 104-115, APPROVED 3/12/96) (SENATE REJECTED MOYNIHAN AMENDMENT NO. 3465, IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
To guarantee the continuing full investment of Social Security and other Federal funds in obligations of the United States.
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(0.95): Increasing the public debt limit facilitates fiscal expansion.
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 (43)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- 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
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- 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
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (47)
- Spencer Abraham
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- William H. Frist
- Phil Gramm
- 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
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (10)
- John AshcroftDid not vote
- Barbara BoxerDid not vote
- Ben Nighthorse CampbellDid not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- T. Slade GortonPresent
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Connie Mack IIIDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Carol Moseley BraunDid not vote
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