Senate Roll Call 734, 99th Congress · October 16, 1986
TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT) AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 738, THE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE SHALL SELL NOTES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS HELD IN THE RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSURANCE FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 309A OF THE CONSOLIDATED FARM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT IN SUCH AMOUNTS AS TO REALIZE NET PROCEEDS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF NOT LESS THAN $50,000,000.
47 yea · 45 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 40 nay
Republican42 yea · 5 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(0.75): Tabling an amendment requiring asset sales blocks realizing government proceeds.
Tagged by: keyword: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 (47)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (45)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
Not voting or present (8)
- James Thomas BroyhillDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
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