Senate Roll Call 313, 98th Congress · October 29, 1983
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 308 TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE DEBT LIMIT AND BUDGET RECONCILIATION BILLS SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR AMENDMENTS WHICH WORSEN THE DEFICIT. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 21
66 yea · 11 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 9 nay
Republican37 yea · 2 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Non-binding sense-of-the-Senate resolution.
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 (66)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (11)
Not voting or present (23)
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- J. Strom ThurmondDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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