House Suspension Vote - H.R. 1954: Public Debt Limit Increase

H.R. 1954: To implement the President's request to increase the statutory limit on the public debt

On Passage
Failed by 222 votes: 97-318, 16 not voting (2/3 required)


House Rejects Bill to Raise Debt Limit
House Republicans have engineered the defeat of their own proposed $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any future increase in government borrowing.

House torpedoes unconditional hike to $14.3 trillion debt ceiling
The vote, which was expected to fail, was 318-97 with 82 Dems joining Republicans in rejecting the legislation.

House rejects debt increase
The drama continues over the federal debt ceiling.

Debt-Ceiling Hike Rejected in Sideshow House Vote
The House voted 97-318 on Tuesday to reject a bill to allow a $2.4 trillion hike in the nation’s debt limit without accompanying spending cuts. The pre-ordained, and entirely unsurprising, outcome was embraced by the Republican majority as a clear message of the measure's unpopularity among the American people, while Democrats derided it as a “sham.”

House Rejects Clean Vote to Raise Debt Ceiling
The measure, which failed by a vote of 97-318 with seven members voting present, stated that “the Congress finds that the President’s budget proposal, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012, necessitates an increase in the statutory debt limit of $2,406,000,000,000,” and would have raised the debt limit to $16.7 trillion.