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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)

Nay (69)

Not voting or present (1)

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