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House Roll Call 639, 101st Congress · July 31, 1990

TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT — TO PASS HR 5355, INCREASING STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT, TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT.

Question before the chamber: On Passage

221 yea · 205 nayPassed1 not voting or present
Democrat175 yea · 72 nay
Republican47 yea · 135 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5355 ↗

To increase the statutory limit on the public debt.

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

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): Raising the statutory debt limit allows for higher borrowing and fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (224)

Nay (207)

Not voting or present (1)

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