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Senate Roll Call 29, 111th Congress · January 29, 2009

To clarify that new paperwork and enrollment barriers are not created in the Express Lane Enrollment option and that income may be determined by Express Lane agencies based on State income tax records or returns.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

55 yea · 43 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat51 yea · 5 nay
Republican2 yea · 38 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2 ↗

Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): Removing enrollment barriers expands access to health coverage.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Administrative rule for health coverage enrollment using tax records, not a tax increase or cut.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.