Senate Roll Call 502, 95th Congress · September 30, 1977
TO PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 9290, A BILL AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE TEMPORARY PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An Act to increase the temporary debt limit, and for other purposes.
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): Raising the public debt limit enables expanded federal borrowing and 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 (59)
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Henry John Heinz III
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (30)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Dale Bumpers
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (11)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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