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Senate Roll Call 145, 111th Congress · April 2, 2009

To ensure that law abiding Amtrak passengers are allowed to securely transport firearms in their checked baggage.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

63 yea · 35 nayMotion Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 33 nay
Republican39 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Allowing firearm transport on Amtrak is a gun rights policy, not a fiscal spending issue.

    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 (63)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (1)

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