Senate Roll Call 222, 99th Congress · October 10, 1985

TO APPROVE H J RES 372, THE JOINT RESOLUTION TO RAISE THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT TO $2.079 TRILLION.

51 yea · 37 nay9 not voting or present

Democrat14 yea · 31 nay

Republican38 yea · 8 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 372 ↗

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985

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 public debt limit facilitates increased government borrowing and 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 (52)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (9)

Thad CochranDid not vote
Alan John DixonDid not vote
John Porter EastDid not vote
Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
James Albertus McClureDid not vote
Mitch McConnellDid not vote
Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
John Cornelius StennisDid not vote

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