To offer a substitute amendment to S CON RES 120, budget resolution. This substitute would fix budget targets for 1987 at the following levels: budget authorit

On May 1, 1986, the Senate voted 66–29. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 38–13, Democrats 29–16. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 29 members voted against their own party.

During the 99th Congress (1985–1986), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.

Yes: 66
No: 29
Did not vote: 5
Date: May 1, 1986

By party

Republicans38 yes · 13 no · 3 didn’t vote
Democrats29 yes · 16 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Howell Thomas Heflin D-AL voted no
David Hampton Pryor D-AR voted no
Gary Warren Hart D-CO voted no
William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE voted no
Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted no
Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
John Bennett Johnston Jr. D-LA voted no
Edward Moore (Ted) Kennedy D-MA voted no
John Forbes Kerry D-MA voted no
Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD voted no
Carl Levin D-MI voted no
John Melcher D-MT voted no
Jesse Helms R-NC voted no
John Porter East R-NC voted no
Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND voted no
Jacob Chic Hecht R-NV voted no
Paul Dominique Laxalt R-NV voted no
Daniel Patrick Moynihan D-NY voted no
John Herschel Glenn Jr. D-OH voted no
Arlen Specter R-PA voted no
Claiborne de Borda Pell D-RI voted no
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN voted no
James Ralph Sasser D-TN voted no
Edwin Jacob (Jake) Garn R-UT voted no
Orrin Grant Hatch R-UT voted no
Daniel Jackson Evans R-WA voted no
Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI voted no

How each senator voted: Yes

How each senator voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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