Senate Roll Call 837, 97th Congress · September 9, 1982
TO CLOSE DEBATE ON THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 520, A BILL PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT. THE HELMS AMENDMENT BANS ABORTION. (MOTION FAILED;3/5 REQUIRED) SEE NOTE(S) 40
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A joint resolution to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
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.
- Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.90): Cloture advances an amendment that bans abortion.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment concerns abortion, not fiscal policy.
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)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (48)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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