Senate Roll Call 121, 111th Congress · April 1, 2009
To protect middle-income taxpayers from tax increases by providing a point of order against legislation that increase taxes on them, including taxes that arise, directly or indirectly, from Federal revenues derived from climate change or similar legislation.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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.
- Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.90): Creating points of order against climate policy revenues hinders climate action.
Tagged by: keyword:climate change
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Points of order against tax increases do not directly address spending or budget 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 (98)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Roland Burris
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (1)
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
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