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House Roll Call 65, 96th Congress · April 2, 1979

TO AGREE TO H. RES. 183, A RESOLUTION TO CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 2534, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT. (MOTION PASSED)

209 yea · 165 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat221 yea · 36 nay
Republican8 yea · 145 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 183 ↗

A resolution concurring in Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 2534) to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit, and for other purposes.

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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing the public debt limit enables fiscal expansion.

    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 (230)

Nay (183)

Not voting or present (19)

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