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Senate Roll Call 500, 110th Congress · March 13, 2008

To take $670,000 used by the EEOC in bringing actions against employers that require their employees to speak English, and instead use the money to teach English to adults through the Department of Education's English Literacy/Civics Education State Grant program.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

54 yea · 44 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 41 nay
Republican46 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 70 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.

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 (0.95) This is a net-neutral transfer of $670,000 between federal accounts.

    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 (54)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (2)

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