Senate Roll Call 410, 99th Congress · March 11, 1986
TO TABLE THE METZENBAUM, OH) AMENDMENT TO THE THURMOND SC) SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO S J RES 225 BALANCED BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. METZENBAUM'S AMENDMENT WOULD FORCE THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A BALANCED BUDGET TO CONGRESS FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR.
54 yea · 44 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 39 nay
Republican46 yea · 6 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 a requirement for the President to submit a balanced budget removes a fiscal restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget
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 (54)
- James Abdnor
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (45)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (1)
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
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