Senate Roll Call 343, 98th Congress · November 10, 1983
TO AFFIRM THE RULING OF THE CHAIR IN SUSTAINING A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST THE FORD AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 413 AS BEING LEGISLATION ON AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL. THE FORD AMENDMENT REQUIRES THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A BALANCED BUDGET FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR. (RULING AFFIRMED) SEE NOTE(S) 23
42 yea · 40 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 36 nay
Republican40 yea · 4 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 (0.85) Sustaining a point of order against a balanced budget amendment is a procedural ruling.
Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget,appropriations
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 (42)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (40)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (18)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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