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Senate Roll Call 130, 112th Congress · September 8, 2011

A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the President's exercise of authority to increase the debt limit, as submitted under section 3101A of title 31, United States Code, on August 2, 2011.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed

45 yea · 52 nayMotion to Proceed Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 47 nay
Republican44 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.J.Res. 25 ↗

A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the President's exercise of authority to increase the debt limit, as submitted under section 3101A of title 31, United States Code, on August 2, 2011.

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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Advancing a resolution disapproving a debt limit increase favors fiscal restraint.

    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 (45)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (3)

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