To table the specter amendment to S 2405, the federal-aid highway act, which would increase the obligation limitations for federal-aid highways and highway safe

On Sep 24, 1986, the Senate voted 69–28 (S 2405). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 38–14, Democrats 31–14. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 28 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: 69
No: 28
Did not vote: 4
Date: Sep 24, 1986

By party

Republicans38 yes · 14 no · 2 didn’t vote
Democrats31 yes · 14 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. R-AL voted no
David Hampton Pryor D-AR voted no
Paula Hawkins R-FL voted no
Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN voted no
Nancy Landon Kassebaum R-KS voted no
Wendell Hampton Ford D-KY voted no
Russell Billiu Long D-LA voted no
Carl Levin D-MI voted no
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI voted no
Max Sieben Baucus D-MT voted no
Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND voted no
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg D-NJ voted no
Jacob Chic Hecht R-NV voted no
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato R-NY voted no
John Herschel Glenn Jr. D-OH voted no
Arlen Specter R-PA voted no
Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted no
James Strom Thurmond R-SC voted no
James Abdnor R-SD voted no
Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted no
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN voted no
James Ralph Sasser D-TN voted no
John William Warner R-VA voted no
Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI voted no
John Davison (Jay) Rockefeller IV D-WV voted no
Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV 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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