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Senate Roll Call 162, 111th Congress · April 23, 2009

To limit the amount that may be deducted from proceeds due to the United States under the False Claims Act for purposes of compensating private intervenors to the greater of $50,000,000 or 300 percent of the expenses and costs of the intervenor.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

31 yea · 61 nayAmendment Rejected7 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 51 nay
Republican29 yea · 9 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 386

FERA

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Capping private intervenor proceeds under the False Claims Act does not move the criminal justice axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (31)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (7)

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