Senate Roll Call 499, 99th Congress · June 6, 1986
MOTION TO WAIVE THE SPENDING AUTHORITY LIMITS OF THE 1985 BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT (PL 99-177) IN ORDER TO AMEND THE TRADE ACT OF 1974. THE SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT WOULD PROVIDE TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE TO WORKERS AND FIRMS WHICH SUPPLY PARTS AND SERVICES TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY.
55 yea · 40 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 5 nay
Republican14 yea · 35 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(0.95): Waiving spending limits to expand trade adjustment assistance increases government spending.
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 (55)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- 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
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
Nay (40)
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
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