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Senate Roll Call 688, 99th Congress · October 1, 1986

TO AGREE TO A MOTION TO WAIVE THE SPENDING ALLOCATION LIMITATION OF THE 1985 BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT AS IT APPLIES TO THE DIXON AMENDMENT WHICH WOULD RESTORE $100 MILLION TO THE SUMMER JOB PROGRAM FOR TEENAGERS. (A THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY OF THE TOTAL SENATE IS REQUIRED TO WAIVE THE SPENDING ALLOCATION LIMITATION OF THE GRAMM-RUDMAN LAW).

31 yea · 67 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 18 nay
Republican1 yea · 49 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(0.95): Waiving budget limits allows $100 million in additional spending for summer youth jobs.

    Tagged by: keyword: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 (31)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (2)

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