Senate Roll Call 23, 97th Congress · February 6, 1981
TO PASS H. R. 1553, TEMPORARY PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 expansion”
model(0.95): Raising the public debt limit enables greater borrowing and spending 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 (73)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (19)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Ralph Sasser
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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