Senate Roll Call 261, 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 Passage of the Bill
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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passing an appropriations bill expands federal 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 (80)
- 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
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Al Franken
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Chuck Grassley
- 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
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (17)
Not voting or present (3)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
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