Senate Roll Call 321, 96th Congress · September 28, 1979
TO PASS H.R. 5369, PROVIDING FOR A COMBINED PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT OF $879 BILLION THROUGH MAY 31, 1980. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit, and to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to make possible the establishment of the public debt limit in the future as a part of the congressional budget process.
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 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 (50)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (31)
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- James Albertus McClure
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (19)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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