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
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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)
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (61)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Mike Crapo
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Mike Johanns
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Mel Martinez
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- James E. Risch
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (7)
- Lamar AlexanderDid not vote
- Richard J. DurbinDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Joseph I. LiebermanDid not vote
- Pat RobertsDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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