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Senate Roll Call 315, 111th Congress · October 6, 2009

A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

93 yea · 7 nayBill Passed
Democrat57 yea · 1 nay
Republican34 yea · 6 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.95): Passing defense appropriations funds and expands military operations.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Passing appropriations bills increases government spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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.