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Senate Roll Call 635, 99th Congress · August 15, 1986

TO ADOPT HR 5395, THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT INCREASE BILL, WHICH WOULD RAISE THE FEDERAL DEBT CEILING FROM $2.079 TRILLION TO $2.111 TRILLION. (THE SENATE, BY VOICE VOTE, SUBSEQUENTLY AGREED TO A DOLE, KS) MOTION TO RECONSIDER).

34 yea · 47 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 29 nay
Republican23 yea · 18 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 public debt limit allows 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 (35)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (18)

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