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Senate Roll Call 295, 97th Congress · September 29, 1981

TO TABLE THE PROXIMIRE AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 265. THE AMENDMENT INCREASES THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT TO $995 BILLION, RATHER THAN $1.0798 TRILLION AS PROVIDED BY THE BILL. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 10

63 yea · 33 nay
Democrat17 yea · 30 nay
Republican48 yea · 4 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 265 ↗

A joint resolution 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): Tabling an amendment that lowers the debt limit preserves the higher debt limit 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 (65)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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