Senate Roll Call 549, 99th Congress · July 31, 1986
TO ADOPT THE HART AMENDMENT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 668, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL, WHICH WOULD REPEAL THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985.
30 yea · 69 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat21 yea · 27 nay
Republican9 yea · 42 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(0.90): Repealing the Balanced Budget Act removes mandatory deficit reduction and spending controls.
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 (30)
- 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.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (69)
- 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
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- 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
Not voting or present (1)
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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