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Senate Roll Call 291, 111th Congress · September 22, 2009

To prohibit the use of appropriated funds for the Des Moines Art Center in the State of Iowa.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

27 yea · 70 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 54 nay
Republican26 yea · 14 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting appropriated funds for a specific art center reduces federal 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.

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.