Senate Roll Call 463, 99th Congress · April 29, 1986
TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT) AMENDMENT TO S CON RES 120, BUDGET RESOLUTION. MELCHER'S AMENDMENT WOULD TRANSFER $21 MILLION FROM THE NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR 1987 TO THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT BUDGET AUTHORITY IN ORDER TO FUND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY GENERATION THROUGH (CONTINUED) MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC GENERATORS.
79 yea · 18 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 15 nay
Republican46 yea · 3 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment is a budget-neutral reallocation of funds from defense to energy research.
Tagged by: keyword:budget resolution
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 (79)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- 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 (18)
- Max Baucus
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
Not voting or present (3)
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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