Senate Roll Call 699, 99th Congress · October 2, 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 ABDNOR AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 738, THE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE PREPAYMENT OF CERTAIN LOANS MADE BY RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS WITHOUT PENALTY TO THE BORROWERS.
45 yea · 51 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 18 nay
Republican17 yea · 33 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(0.85): Waiving budget allocation limits facilitates spending outlays for rural electrification loans.
Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget,appropriations
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 (45)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- James Thomas Broyhill
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (51)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (4)
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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