Senate Roll Call 216, 99th Congress · October 10, 1985
TO TABLE THE GLENN, OH) AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 372, TO REQUI THE ADMINISTRATION TO RECOMMEND ALTERNATIVES TO BORROWING AND RAISING THE DEBT LIMIT IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL DEFICIT.
33 yea · 65 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 47 nay
Republican32 yea · 18 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 (0.90) Tabling an amendment mandating administrative reporting alternatives is procedural.
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 (33)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (65)
- 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.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (2)
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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