Senate Roll Call 217, 111th Congress · July 6, 2009
A bill making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010
Policy area: Congress — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passing an appropriations bill expands spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Mark Begich
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Judd A. Gregg
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Mike Johanns
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (25)
- John Barrasso
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- John Thune
- Mark Udall
- David Vitter
Not voting or present (7)
- Samuel D. BrownbackDid not vote
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Johnny IsaksonDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Mary L. LandrieuDid not vote
- Patty MurrayDid not vote
- Tom UdallDid not vote
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