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House Roll Call 987, 95th Congress · May 17, 1978

TO AGREE TO H. RES. 1176, THE RULE TO CONSIDER H.R. 12641, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT.

320 yea · 77 nay34 not voting or present
Democrat244 yea · 17 nay
Republican78 yea · 59 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 1176 ↗

A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 12641, a bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.

Policy area: Congress — 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 (0.95) A rule providing for consideration of a bill is floor procedure.

    Tagged by: keyword:debt limit

    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 (323)

Nay (77)

Not voting or present (34)

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