Senate Roll Call 412, 99th Congress · March 12, 1986
TO TABLE THE HEFLIN, AL) AMENDMENT TO THE THURMOND SUBSTITUTE TO S J RES 225, BALANCED BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. HEFLIN'S AMENDMENT WOULD ENSURE THAT, IN THE (CONTINUED) EVENT OF DECLARED WAR, THE BALANCED BUDGET REQUIREMENT WOULD BE SUSPENDED AUTOMATICALLY.
52 yea · 48 nay
Democrat13 yea · 35 nay
Republican39 yea · 13 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 restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment to automatically suspend balanced budget rules promotes 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 (52)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (48)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- 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
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (0)
None
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