Roll Call Vote #2 · 104th Congress · Session 2 · Jan 26, 1996, 4:38 PM (ET)
On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 3120 to H.R. 2880 (Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I) (H.R. 2880)
Amendment S.Amdt. 3120 (To increase the public debt limit.)
Motion to Table Agreed to (46-45)
46 Yea
45 Nay
How the Parties Voted
Republican 53 senators
45 Yea / 1 Nay
7 not voting or present
Majority position: Yea
Democrat 46 senators
1 Yea / 44 Nay
1 not voting or present
Majority position: Nay
Crossed Party Lines
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Tom Harkin (Democrat–IA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Arlen Specter (Republican–PA) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 46
- Spencer Abraham (MI)
- John Ashcroft (MO)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- Hank Brown (CO)
- Conrad Burns (MT)
- John Chafee (RI)
- William Cochran (MS)
- William Cohen (ME)
- Paul Coverdell (GA)
- Larry Craig (ID)
- Alfonse D'Amato (NY)
- Michael DeWine (OH)
- Robert Dole (KS)
- Pete Domenici (NM)
- William Frist (TN)
- Slade Gorton, III (WA)
- Rod Grams (MN)
- Chuck Grassley (IA)
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Mark Hatfield (OR)
- Jesse Helms (NC)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- James Jeffords (VT)
- Baker Kassebaum (KS)
- Dirk Kempthorne (ID)
- Trent Lott (MS)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- Connie Mack, III (FL)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
- Mitch McConnell (KY)
- Frank Murkowski (AK)
- Donald Nickles (OK)
- Larry Pressler (SD)
- William Roth, Jr. (DE)
- Rick Santorum (PA)
- Alan Simpson (WY)
- Robert Smith (NH)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Ted Stevens (AK)
- Craig Thomas (WY)
- Fred Thompson (TN)
- Strom Thurmond (SC)
- John Warner (VA)
Nay 45
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Joe Biden, Jr. (DE)
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- Bill Bradley (NJ)
- John Breaux (LA)
- Richard Bryan (NV)
- Dale Bumpers (AR)
- Robert Byrd (WV)
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Thomas Daschle (SD)
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- J. Exon (NE)
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Wendell Ford (KY)
- John Glenn, Jr. (OH)
- Bob Graham (FL)
- Howell Heflin (AL)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. (LA)
- Ted Kennedy (MA)
- J. Kerrey (NE)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)
- Carol Moseley Braun (IL)
- Daniel Moynihan (NY)
- Patty Murray (WA)
- Samuel Nunn (GA)
- Claiborne Pell (RI)
- David Pryor (AR)
- Harry Reid (NV)
- Charles Robb (VA)
- Jay Rockefeller, IV (WV)
- Paul Sarbanes (MD)
- Paul Simon (IL)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- Paul Wellstone (MN)
Not Voting 8
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Ben Campbell (CO)
- Daniel Coats (IN)
- Lauch Faircloth (NC)
- Phil Gramm (TX)
- Fritz Hollings (SC)
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- Richard Shelby (AL)
Other Votes on H.R. 2880
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Vote #4 On Passage of the Bill H.R. 2880Bill Passed (82-8) Jan 26, 1996
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).