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Senate Roll Call 290, 111th Congress · September 22, 2009

To support the participation of the Smithsonian Institution in activities under the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

95 yea · 0 nayAmendment Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat54 yea · 0 nay
Republican39 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2996 ↗

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 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.

  • Civil RightsDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Supports participation in a historical documentation project, which does not directly alter legal civil rights protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:civil rights

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Participation in a historical project does not specify a clear fiscal expansion or spending cut.

    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 (95)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (4)

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