Senate Roll Call 55, 109th Congress · March 16, 2005

To increase veterans medical care by $2.8 billion in 2006.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

47 yea · 53 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat43 yea · 1 nay

Republican2 yea · 52 nay

Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 18 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010.

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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Increasing spending on veterans medical care expands the federal budget.
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 (53)

Not voting or present (0)

None

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.