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House Roll Call 451, 96th Congress · September 20, 1979

TO AGREE TO AMEND THE SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5229, PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT, BY CHANGING THE DATE FOR EXTENDING THE TEMPORARY DEBT LIMIT FROM MARCH 31, 1981 TO JULY 31, 1980 AND REDUCING THE CEILING ON THE DEBT BY $44 BILLION. (MOTION PASSED)

408 yea · 1 nay25 not voting or present
Democrat252 yea · 1 nay
Republican153 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5229 ↗

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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Reducing the proposed debt ceiling ceiling represents fiscal restraint.

    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 (408)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (25)

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