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Senate Roll Call 402, 109th Congress · March 9, 2006

To provide greater transparency with respect to lobbying activities, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify when organizations described in section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 must register as political committees, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

51 yea · 47 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 42 nay
Republican50 yea · 3 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2349 ↗

Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006

Policy area: Congress — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Lobbying transparency and 527 regulation is campaign finance policy, not a tax vote.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (51)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (2)

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