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Senate Roll Call 294, 111th Congress · September 23, 2009

To strike the earmarks for the Save America's Treasure program and to provide criteria for the distribution of grants under that program.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

72 yea · 26 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 4 nay
Republican18 yea · 22 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Tabling an amendment that cuts earmarks preserves the 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 (72)

Nay (26)

Not voting or present (1)

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