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Senate Roll Call 237, 112th Congress · January 26, 2012

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 January 12, 2012.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed

44 yea · 52 nayMotion to Proceed Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 49 nay
Republican42 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 98 ↗

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 January 12, 2012.

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(0.90): Proceeding to a resolution disapproving a debt ceiling 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 (44)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (4)

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