Senate Roll Call 225, 99th Congress · October 16, 1985
TO TABLE THE GORE, TN) AMENDMENT TO HR 3037, TO REQUIRE THE FDA TO COMPLETE A STUDY BY JUNE 1986 ON THE SAFETY OF SULFITING AGENTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
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) Requiring an FDA safety study is a regulatory issue without a clear impact on fiscal scale.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (18)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- John Porter East
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (77)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen 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
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- 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
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- 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
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Tom HarkinDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
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