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House Roll Call 121, 98th Congress · May 18, 1983

TO AGREE TO H. RES. 196, THE RULE FOR CONSIDERING H.R. 2990. H.R. 2990 PROVIDES FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE OF $98.8 MILLION IN THE PUBLIC DEBT. (MOTION PASSED)

263 yea · 156 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat238 yea · 11 nay
Republican25 yea · 144 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 providing for consideration of a bill.

    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 (264)

Nay (157)

Not voting or present (11)

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