Senate Roll Call 259, 111th Congress · August 4, 2009
A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
Policy area: Agriculture and Food — 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 (0.85) Unspecified motion on an overall appropriations bill text names no specific action.
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 (32)
- John Barrasso
- Evan Bayh
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Jon Kyl
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- James E. Risch
- Jeff Sessions
- Olympia J. Snowe
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (65)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Roland Burris
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Al Franken
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (3)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
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