Senate Roll Call 115, 98th Congress · May 25, 1983
TO PASS H.R. 2990 TO INCREASE THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT FROM $1,290.2 BILLION TO $1,389.0 BILLION. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to increase the permanent public 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 represents 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 (51)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (41)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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