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Senate Roll Call 6, 109th Congress · February 9, 2005

To amend the definition of class action in title 28, United States Code, to exclude class actions relating to civil rights or the payment of wages.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

40 yea · 59 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 6 nay
Republican0 yea · 53 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 5 ↗

Class Action Fairness Act of 2005

Policy area: Law — 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.85): Excluding civil rights from class action restrictions protects legal remedies.

    Tagged by: keyword:civil rights

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

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

Yea (40)

Nay (59)

Not voting or present (1)

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