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House Roll Call 464, 96th Congress · September 26, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 5369, PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT, BY PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT AS AS A PART OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS. (MOTION FAILED)

132 yea · 283 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 238 nay
Republican112 yea · 44 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5369 ↗

A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit, and to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to make possible the establishment of the public debt limit in the future as a part of the congressional budget process.

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 (0.85) Modifying procedural rules for establishing debt limits is a budget process issue, not direct spending changes.

    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 (132)

Nay (283)

Not voting or present (19)

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