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House Roll Call 794, 95th Congress · March 7, 1978

TO PASS H.R. 11180.

165 yea · 248 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat160 yea · 114 nay
Republican9 yea · 137 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Increases the public debt limit, enabling 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 (170)

Nay (253)

Not voting or present (11)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.