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Senate Roll Call 589, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO ADOPT H J RES 668, INCREASING THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT FROM $2.079 TRILLION TO $2.323 TRILLION. AMONG OTHER PROVISIONS THE RESOLUTION WOULD PREVENT FUTURE DISINVESTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS, RESTORE THE AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS PROCEDURE OF THE GRAMM-RUDMAN-HOLLINGS ANTI-DEFICIT ACT, PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO DROUGHT-STRIKEN FARMERS, AND CREATE A NEW FEDERAL CRIME OF MONEY-LAUNDERING.

47 yea · 40 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 24 nay
Republican29 yea · 16 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 668 ↗

A joint resolution increasing 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): Raising the public debt limit facilitates higher federal spending, moving toward 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 (48)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (12)

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