Senate Roll Call 357, 98th Congress · November 16, 1983
TO TABLE THE ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 290. H. J. RES. 290 PERMITS FREE ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF PERSONAL EFFECTS, EQUIPMENT AND OTHER RELATED ARTICLES OF FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS, OFFICIALS, AND OTHER ACCREDITED MEMBERS OF DELEGATIONS INVOLVED IN THE GAMES OF THE XXIII OLYMPIAD TO BE HELD IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1984. THE ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES MONTHLY DEBT LIMIT TARGETS AND QUARTERLY LIMITS ON THE FEDERAL DEBT. (MOTION PASSED)
49 yea · 46 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 9 nay
Republican15 yea · 37 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 expansion”
model(0.90): Tabling the amendment kills strict statutory debt limit targets and limits.
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 (49)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Nay (46)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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