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House Roll Call 140, 113th Congress · May 9, 2013

To require that the Government prioritize all obligations on the debt held by the public in the event that the debt limit is reached

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

200 yea · 227 nayFailed5 not voting or present
Democrat197 yea · 0 nay
Republican2 yea · 226 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 807 ↗

Full Faith and Credit Act

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(0.80): Motion to recommit with instructions required paying all government obligations, protecting spending.

    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 (200)

Nay (227)

Not voting or present (5)

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