Senate Roll Call 634, 99th Congress · August 15, 1986

TO TABLE THE GRAMM-RUDMAN-HOLLINGS AMENDMENT TO HR 5395, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL. THE AMENDMENT WOULD REINSTATE FOR 1987 ONLY THE LAW'S AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS PROCEDURE AND GRANT FINAL AUTHORITY FOR DETERMINING THE CUTS TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WITH CERTAIN LIMITATIONS.

29 yea · 63 nay8 not voting or present

Democrat23 yea · 21 nay

Republican6 yea · 42 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5395 ↗

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1986

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

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): Tabling kills the reinstatement of automatic spending cuts.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (29)

Nay (63)

Not voting or present (8)

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