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Senate Roll Call 316, 111th Congress · October 7, 2009

To prohibit funds from being used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

61 yea · 38 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat56 yea · 1 nay
Republican3 yea · 37 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2847 ↗

Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act

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.

  • ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Expansive”

    model(0.85): Tabling kills a prohibition on sanctuary city funding, opposing immigration restriction.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration,immigrant

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Funding riders regarding sanctuary city compliance are policy disputes where fiscal impact is incidental.

    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 (61)

Nay (38)

Not voting or present (1)

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