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House Roll Call 326, 101st Congress · November 7, 1989

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HJ RES 280, DEBT LIMIT INCREASE, TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY LIMIT FOR THE PUBLIC DEBT. (MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

269 yea · 99 nay63 not voting or present
Democrat170 yea · 32 nay
Republican99 yea · 67 nay
Other2 yea · 0 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(0.95): Increasing the statutory debt limit allows for fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: keyword:debt limit

    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 (271)

Nay (99)

Not voting or present (63)

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