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House Roll Call 767, 98th Congress · June 29, 1984

TO AGREE TO AN WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5953, A BILL INCREASING THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT BY $53 BILLION FROM $1.520 TRILLION TO $1.573 TRILLION. THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT SETS THE STATUTORY LIMIT AT $1.7526 TRILLION. (MOTION FAILED)

108 yea · 301 nay24 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 199 nay
Republican60 yea · 100 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5953 ↗

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 (108)

Nay (301)

Not voting or present (24)

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