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House Roll Call 1210, 108th Congress · November 18, 2004

To amend title 31 of the United States Code to increase the public debt limit

Question before the chamber: On Passage

208 yea · 204 nayPassed21 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 193 nay
Republican208 yea · 10 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2986 ↗

A bill to amend title 31 of the United States Code to increase the public debt limit.

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 public debt limit enables 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 (208)

Nay (204)

Not voting or present (21)

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