Senate Roll Call 262, 116th Congress · August 1, 2019
A bill to amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, to establish a congressional budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, to temporarily suspend the debt limit, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019
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): Suspending the debt limit and raising budget caps constitutes 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 (67)
- Lamar Alexander
- Tammy Baldwin
- John Barrasso
- Richard Blumenthal
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Sherrod Brown
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- John Cornyn
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Kevin Cramer
- Mike Crapo
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Joni Ernst
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Martin Heinrich
- Mazie K. Hirono
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- James M. Inhofe
- Doug Jones
- Tim Kaine
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Edward J. Markey
- Mitch McConnell
- Martha McSally
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- David Perdue
- Gary C. Peters
- Rob Portman
- Jack Reed
- Pat Roberts
- Jacky Rosen
- Mike Rounds
- Brian Schatz
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Dan Sullivan
- John Thune
- Tom Udall
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
- Todd Young
Nay (28)
- Michael F. Bennet
- Marsha Blackburn
- Mike Braun
- Thomas R. Carper
- Bill Cassidy
- Tom Cotton
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Michael B. Enzi
- Deb Fischer
- Cory Gardner
- Josh Hawley
- Ron Johnson
- John Kennedy
- Amy Klobuchar
- James Lankford
- Mike Lee
- Joe Manchin, III
- Rand Paul
- James E. Risch
- Mitt Romney
- Marco Rubio
- Ben Sasse
- Rick Scott
- Tim Scott
- Jon Tester
- Thom Tillis
- Patrick J. Toomey
Not voting or present (5)
- Cory A. BookerDid not vote
- Kamala D. HarrisDid not vote
- Johnny IsaksonDid not vote
- Bernard SandersDid not vote
- Elizabeth WarrenDid not vote
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