Senate Roll Call 142, 111th Congress · April 2, 2009
To protect workers from significant job loss by providing a point of order against climate change or similar legislation that raises Federal revenues to such an extent that it causes significant job loss in manufacturing- or coal-dependent U.S. regions such as the Midwest, Great Plains or South.
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 a point of order against climate change legislation obstructs climate action.
Tagged by: keyword:climate change,coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Creating a procedural point of order against revenue-raising climate legislation does not directly alter federal spending levels.
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)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Byron L. Dorgan
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Kay R. Hagan
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Debbie Stabenow
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
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