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Senate Roll Call 120, 111th Congress · April 1, 2009

To restore the budget discipline of the Federal Government by freezing nondefense discretionary spending for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, and limiting the growth of nondefense discretionary spending to one percent annually for fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

40 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 54 nay
Republican38 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 13 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014.

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): Freezing nondefense discretionary spending enforces fiscal restraint.

    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 (40)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (1)

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