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House Roll Call 559, 95th Congress · September 28, 1977

TO PASS H.R. 9290, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR AN INCREASE IN THE TEMPORARY DEBT LIMIT.

213 yea · 202 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat200 yea · 80 nay
Republican19 yea · 128 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 9290 ↗

An Act to increase the temporary debt limit, and for other purposes.

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 debt limit facilitates 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 (221)

Nay (209)

Not voting or present (4)

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