Senate Roll Call 548, 99th Congress · July 30, 1986
TO ADOPT THE RUDMAN AMENDMENT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 668, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL, WHICH WOULD MODIFY PROCEDURES UNDER THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985 SO THAT THE LAW'S AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS PROCEDURE WOULD BE REINSTATED WITH FINAL AUTHORITY FOR THE CUTS RESIDING IN THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET. THE AMENDMENT WOULD ALSO REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT HIS BUDGET REQUEST TO THE CONGRESS BY THE FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY OF EACH YEAR.
63 yea · 36 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 26 nay
Republican41 yea · 10 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): Reinstates automatic spending cuts mechanism under federal balanced budget law.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit,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 (63)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- 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
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- 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
- Patrick J. Leahy
- 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
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- 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
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (36)
- Mark Andrews
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (1)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
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