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Senate Roll Call 685, 99th Congress · October 1, 1986

TO ADOPT A MOTION TO WAIVE THE SPENDING ALLOCATION LIMITATION LIMITATION OF THE 1985 BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT AS IT APPLIES TO THE BOREN AMENDMENT TO H J RES 738, THE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE PAYMENTS TO CERTAIN CATTLE PRODUCERS, AND INTEREST RATE RELIEF ON AGRICULTURAL LOANS, AND DROUGHT ASSISTANCE TO FARMERS AND RANCHERS IN THE UNITED STATES. (A THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY OF THE TOTAL SENATE IS REQUIRED TO WAIVE THE SPENDING ALLOCATION LIMITATION OF THE GRAMM-RUDMAN LAW).

45 yea · 53 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 12 nay
Republican10 yea · 41 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 738 ↗

A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1987, and for other purposes.

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): Waiving budget limits allows additional spending for farm payments and drought relief.

    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 (46)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (1)

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