Senate Roll Call 517, 110th Congress · March 13, 2008

To establish an earmark moratorium for fiscal year 2009.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

29 yea · 71 nayMotion Rejected

Democrat5 yea · 45 nay

Republican23 yea · 25 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Establishing an earmark moratorium enforces fiscal restraint by halting earmarked 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 (29)

Nay (71)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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