Senate Roll Call 547, 99th Congress · July 30, 1986
TO TABLE THE EXON, NE) MOTION TO RECOMMIT HJ RES 668, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL, TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS WITH INSTRUCTIONS THAT THE RESOLUTION BE REPORTED BACK EXPRESSING THE SENSE-OF-THE SENATE THAT CONGRESS USE GRAMM-RUDMAN FALLBACK PROVISIONS, REQUIRING PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF BUDGETS CUTS, IN MEETING THE LAW'S DEFICIT TARGETS.
66 yea · 33 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat17 yea · 31 nay
Republican49 yea · 2 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) Tabling a motion to recommit containing non-binding sense-of-the-Senate budget instructions.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit
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 (66)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- James Thomas Broyhill
- Dale Bumpers
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (33)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Cornelius Stennis
Not voting or present (1)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
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