Senate Roll Call 655, 98th Congress · October 5, 1984
TO TABLE THE TSONGAS AMENDMENT TO TO H. J. RES. 654. THE TSONGAS AMENDMENT LIMITS THE INCREASE IN THE LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT AND PROVIDES FOR CONSIDERATION OF DEFICIT REDUCTION LEGISLATION PRIOR TO CONSIDERATION OF ANOTHER INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 15
30 yea · 61 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 37 nay
Republican25 yea · 24 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(0.85): Tabling limits on debt increases allows greater fiscal expansion.
Tagged by: keyword:deficit reduction
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 (30)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (61)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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