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House Roll Call 369, 99th Congress · November 13, 1985

TO APPROVE H R 3721 TEMPORARY PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE, A BILL THAT INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEBT TO NO MORE THAN $1.904 TRILLION AND LOWERS IT BACK TO $1.824 TRILLION BY DECEMBER 13. THE BILL ALSO REINVESTS ALL SECURITIES THAT GOVERNMENT HAS DIVESTED SINCE SEPTEMBER 30. (MOTION PASSED)

300 yea · 121 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat208 yea · 29 nay
Republican90 yea · 92 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3721 ↗

A bill to temporarily increase the limit on the public debt and to restore the investments of the Social Security Trust Funds and other trust funds.

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): Increasing the public debt limit 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 (301)

Nay (121)

Not voting or present (12)

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