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House Roll Call 754, 98th Congress · June 28, 1984

TO AGREE TO A HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5927. H.R. 5927 INCREASES THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT BY $53 BILLION, FROM $1.520 TRILLION TO $1.573 TRILLION. THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT SETS THE STATUTORY LIMIT AT $1.753 TRILLION ON THE PUBLIC DEBT. (MOTION FAILED).

87 yea · 332 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 213 nay
Republican48 yea · 117 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5927 ↗

A bill to increase 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): A yes vote increases the statutory public debt limit ceiling further.

    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 (87)

Nay (332)

Not voting or present (14)

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