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House Roll Call 793, 95th Congress · March 7, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 11180 BY STRIKING TITLE II OF THE BILL. TITLE II STATES THAT THE LIMIT IN THE PUBLIC DEBT SHALL BE DECIDED THEREAFTER BY MEANS OF A CONCURENT BUDGET RESOLUTION.

277 yea · 132 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat170 yea · 101 nay
Republican108 yea · 33 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11180 ↗

A bill to increase the public debt limit through March 1, 1979, to provide that thereafter the public debt limit shall be established pursuant to the congressional budget procedures and to improve debt management.

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Strikes a procedural provision regarding debt limit determination methods.

    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 (280)

Nay (135)

Not voting or present (19)

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