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Senate Roll Call 298, 97th Congress · September 29, 1981

TO PASS H. J. RES. 265, TO PROVIDE FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT. (MOTION PASSED)

64 yea · 34 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 28 nay
Republican45 yea · 6 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): Passing a temporary increase in the public debt limit expands borrowing authority.

    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 (64)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (1)

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