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Senate Roll Call 279, 111th Congress · September 16, 2009

To permit Amtrak passengers to safely transport firearms and ammunition in their checked baggage.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

68 yea · 30 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 29 nay
Republican40 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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.

  • GunsA yea counts toward “Gun rights”

    model(0.95): Permitting firearms in checked baggage on Amtrak expands gun rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:ammunition

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Firearm policy on Amtrak is a gun rights issue, not a fiscal spending axis.

    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 (68)

Nay (30)

Not voting or present (1)

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