Senate Roll Call 242, 99th Congress · October 23, 1985
TO TABLE THE ARMSTRONG, CO) AMENDMENT TO HR 3244, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR FISCAL 1986, TO ELIMINAT FEDERAL SUBSIDIES FOR AMTRAK.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1986
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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Tabling an amendment to eliminate Amtrak subsidies preserves federal spending.
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 (71)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- 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
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (25)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Phil Gramm
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- William Proxmire
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (4)
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
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