Senate Roll Call 556, 99th Congress · August 1, 1986
TO TABLE THE BUMPERS, AR) AMENDMENT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 668, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL. THE BUMPERS AMENDMENT WOULD PROVIDE FOR ADEQUATE FINANCING OF THE COSTS INCURRED BY THE FISCAL SERVICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY IN PROVIDING SERVICES RELATING TO THE FEDERAL OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE TRUST FUND AND THE FEDERAL DISABILITY INSURANCE TRUST FUND, AND TO EXEMPT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR THE PROGRAM OF OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS ESTABLISHED UNDER TITLE II OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT FROM SEQUESTRATION AND REDUCTION UNDER THE BALANCED (CONTINUED) BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1986.
45 yea · 36 nay17 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 33 nay
Republican34 yea · 4 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): Tabling the amendment maintains sequestration budget cuts for Social Security administrative expenses.
Tagged by: keyword:debt limit,sequestration
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 (46)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- James Thomas Broyhill
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (37)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (17)
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.Did not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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