Senate Roll Call 310, 98th Congress · October 28, 1983
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 308 TO TERMINATE THE INCREASE IN THE DEBT LIMIT IF THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT DO NOT PROMPTLY ENACT DEFINITE-REDUCTION LEGISLATION. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 21
31 yea · 53 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 13 nay
Republican4 yea · 41 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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 restraint”
model(0.95): Terminating the debt limit increase forces deficit reduction and fiscal restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit
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 (32)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (54)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (14)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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