Senate Roll Call 458, 98th Congress · May 3, 1984
TO AGREE TO THE CHILES POINT OF ORDER AGAINST THE MATTINGLY AMENDMENT. THE MATTINGLY AMENDMENT AUTHORIZES THE PRESIDENT TO VETO ITEMS OF APPROPRIATIONS RELATING TO FISCAL YEARS 1985 AND 1986. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 27
56 yea · 34 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 5 nay
Republican21 yea · 29 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(0.80): Sustaining a point of order blocks a line-item veto mechanism meant for spending control.
Tagged by: keyword: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 (56)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- 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
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- John Goodwin Tower
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (34)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Chuck Grassley
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (10)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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