Senate Roll Call 126, 111th Congress · April 1, 2009

To prohibit the use of reconciliation in the Senate for climate change legislation involving a cap and trade system.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

67 yea · 31 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present

Democrat27 yea · 29 nay

Republican40 yea · 0 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.

Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.95): Prohibiting reconciliation for cap and trade hinders climate change legislation.
Tagged by: keyword:climate change
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The measure restricts Senate reconciliation procedure for climate policy, not directly changing 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 (67)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (1)

Edward M. KennedyDid not vote

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