House Roll Call 988, 95th Congress · May 17, 1978

TO PASS H.R. 12641, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT.

167 yea · 228 nay14 not voting or present

Democrat173 yea · 100 nay

Republican6 yea · 139 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12641 ↗

A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.

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): Increasing the public debt limit enables expanded federal borrowing and 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 (179)

Nay (241)

Not voting or present (14)

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