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Senate Roll Call 307, 111th Congress · October 6, 2009

To prohibit the use of funds for the Center on Climate Change and National Security of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

38 yea · 60 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 56 nay
Republican38 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3326

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting funds for a CIA climate change center restricts climate initiatives.

    Tagged by: keyword:climate change

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Defunding a climate unit within intelligence does not directly expand or restrain military posture.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

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