Senate Roll Call 441, 99th Congress · April 10, 1986
TO ADOPT THE SYMMS AMENDMENT, AS AMENDED BY THE BAUCUS, MT) AMENDMENT, TO S 1017, METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS TRANSFER ACT. THE SYMMS AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE CONVICTION OF THE SENATE THAT LEGISLATION RELATING TO TAX REFORM SHOULD NOT BE DEBATED UNTIL CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT REACH A DEFINITE BUDGET AGREEMENT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Metropolitan Washington Airports Transfer Act of 1986
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Expressing a non-binding opinion on the timing of tax reform debate is procedural.
Tagged by: keyword:tax reform
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (72)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- John F. Kerry
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (24)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
Not voting or present (4)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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