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House Roll Call 120, 98th Congress · May 18, 1983

TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON H. RES. 196 BEFORE THE LOTT AMENDMENT IS OFFERED. H. RES. 196 IS THE RULE FOR CONSIDERING H.R. 2990. H.R. 2990 PROVIDES FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE OF $98.8 MILLION IN THE PUBLIC DEBT. THE LOTT AMENDMENT TO H. RES. 196 REDUCES FEDERAL SPENDING BY $7 BILLION ON PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT YET EXIST. (MOTION PASSED)

249 yea · 171 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat245 yea · 6 nay
Republican3 yea · 163 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2990 ↗

An act to increase the permanent public debt limit, and for other purposes.

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Procedural vote on ordering the previous question.

    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 (249)

Nay (171)

Not voting or present (12)

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