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House Roll Call 640, 98th Congress · May 22, 1984

TO PASS H.R. 5665, A BILL PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE FEDERAL DEBT CEILING OF $30 BILLION FROM $1.49 TRILLION TO $1.52 TRILLION. (MOTION FAILED)

150 yea · 263 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat111 yea · 142 nay
Republican45 yea · 120 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5665 ↗

A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Raising the debt limit allows 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 (157)

Nay (264)

Not voting or present (12)

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