Senate Roll Call 636, 99th Congress · August 15, 1986
TO ADOPT HR 5395, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL, WHICH WOULD RAISE THE FEDERAL DEBT CEILING FROM $2.079 TRILLION TO $2.111 TRILLION.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Raising the federal debt ceiling represents fiscal expansion.
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 (36)
- James Abdnor
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- James Thomas Broyhill
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert William Packwood
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (35)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alan Cranston
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Paula Hawkins
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (29)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.Did not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Gordon John HumphreyDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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