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Senate Roll Call 22, 97th Congress · February 6, 1981

TO TABLE BYRD AMENDMENT TO H. R. 1553, TEMPORARY PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE, TO DECREASE THE LEVEL OF TEMPORARY DEBT (CONTINUED) LIMIT FROM $585 BILLION TO $563 BILLION. (MOTION PASSED)

52 yea · 41 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 42 nay
Republican50 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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): Tabling an amendment to lower the debt limit leaves the higher debt limit intact, promoting 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 (53)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (4)

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