Christopher A. Coons on Spending & Budget

DemocratDE

Spending & Budget582 votes · 79.1/100 consistent

Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

1,114 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 582 of them counted toward the score above: 436 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 146 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 532 did not count: 520 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 12 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2011-05-25	A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2016.S.Con.Res. 20 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2011-05-25	A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2021.S.Con.Res. 21 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2011-05-25	A concurrent resolution setting forth the President's budget request for the United States Government for fiscal year 2012, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2021.S.Con.Res. 18 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2011-05-25	A concurrent resolution establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2021.H.Con.Res. 34 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2011-04-14	A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes.H.R. 1473 · 112th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2011-03-17	A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.H.J.Res. 48 · 112th Congress · On the Joint Resolution	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2011-03-09	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 1 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2011-03-09	A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes.H.R. 1 · 112th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2011-03-02	To express the sense of the Senate in support of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.S. 23 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2011-03-02	A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.H.J.Res. 44 · 112th Congress · On the Joint Resolution	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2011-03-01	To require that the Government prioritize all obligations on the debt held by the public in the event that the debt limit is reached.S. 23 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2010-12-21	A bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.H.R. 3082 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2010-12-21	A bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.H.R. 3082 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2010-12-09	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.S. 3454 · 111th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Fiscal expansion

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Fiscal expansion / Fiscal restraint axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.