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House Roll Call 771, 99th Congress · August 15, 1986

TO CONSIDER SENATE AMENDMENTS TO HR 5395, A BILL TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT. CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT NUMBERED 1, TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING TO $2.111 TRILLION, AND DISAGREE TO SENATE AMENDMENT NUMBERED 2, RELATING TO THE GRAMM-RUDMAN-HOLLINGS ANTI-DEFICIT LAW.

175 yea · 133 nay120 not voting or present
Democrat150 yea · 12 nay
Republican24 yea · 123 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5395

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1986

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 statutory public debt limit expands fiscal capacity.

    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 (176)

Nay (135)

Not voting or present (120)

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