House Roll Call 465, 96th Congress · September 26, 1979

TO PASS H.R. 5369, PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT. (MOTION PASSED)

219 yea · 198 nay5 not voting or present

Democrat217 yea · 48 nay

Republican7 yea · 154 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Increasing the public debt limit facilitates 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 (225)

Nay (204)

Not voting or present (5)

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