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Senate Roll Call 272, 109th Congress · October 26, 2005

To increase appropriations for Head Start programs.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

47 yea · 52 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 3 nay
Republican5 yea · 49 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3010 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 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.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Increasing appropriations for Head Start expands the federal role in early education.

    Tagged by: keyword:head start

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing appropriations for Head Start increases federal spending.

    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 (47)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (1)

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