House Roll Call 498, 98th Congress · November 17, 1983

TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H. J. RES. 308, DEBT LIMIT INCREASE, TO RAISE THE PUBLIC DEBT FROM $1.389 TRILLION TO $1.49 TRILLION. (MOTION PASSED)

214 yea · 186 nay34 not voting or present

Democrat153 yea · 89 nay

Republican58 yea · 97 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 308 ↗

A joint resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.

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 ceiling represents fiscal 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 (214)

Nay (186)

Not voting or present (34)

Frank AnnunzioDid not vote
Tom BevillDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Jim CooperDid not vote
Thomas Joseph CorcoranDid not vote
Norman Edward D’AmoursDid not vote
Mervyn Malcolm DymallyDid not vote
Norvell William EmersonDid not vote
Geraldine Anne FerraroDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Kent Ronald HanceDid not vote
James V. HansenDid not vote
Augustus Freeman HawkinsDid not vote
Marjorie Sewell HoltDid not vote
William LehmanDid not vote
Jerry LewisDid not vote
Connie Mack IIIDid not vote
Edward Rell MadiganDid not vote
Matthew G. MartínezDid not vote
Clarence E. MillerDid not vote
Joseph George MinishDid not vote
William Flynt NicholsDid not vote
Solomon P. OrtizDid not vote
Ron PaulDid not vote
Joel McFee PritchardDid not vote
Thomas Joseph RidgeDid not vote
Matthew John RinaldoDid not vote
Marge RoukemaDid not vote
Eldon Dean RuddDid not vote
Philip Riley SharpDid not vote
Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
Gene TaylorDid not vote
Douglas WalgrenDid not vote
John Patrick WilliamsDid not vote

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