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House Roll Call 377, 112th Congress · May 31, 2011

To implement the President’s request to increase the statutory limit on the public debt

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

97 yea · 318 nayFailed16 not voting or present
Democrat97 yea · 82 nay
Republican0 yea · 235 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1954 ↗

To implement the President's request 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): Increasing the debt ceiling enables federal 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 (97)

Nay (318)

Not voting or present (16)

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