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Senate Roll Call 278, 111th Congress · September 16, 2009

To fully provide for the critical surface transportation needs of the United States by prohibiting funds from being used on lower-priority projects, such as transportation museums.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

41 yea · 57 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 49 nay
Republican34 yea · 6 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3288 ↗

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting funding for lower-priority projects restricts spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (41)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (1)

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