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Senate Roll Call 229, 109th Congress · September 14, 2005

To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

44 yea · 54 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 1 nay
Republican0 yea · 53 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2862 ↗

Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Establishing an investigative commission is procedural oversight, not direct fiscal expansion or restraint.

    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 (44)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (2)

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