Senate Roll Call 278, 99th Congress · November 1, 1985
TO PASS HR 3669, A BILL TO TEMPORARILY RAISE THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT, TO AVOID THE NECESSITY FOR REDEEMING SOCIAL SECURITY FUND LONG-TERM SECURITIES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to prevent the disinvestment of the Social Security Trust Funds and other trust funds.
Policy area: Social Welfare — 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): Raising the public debt limit represents fiscal expansion.
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 (51)
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- 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
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (22)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- William Proxmire
- James Ralph Sasser
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (27)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Mark AndrewsDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Tom HarkinDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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