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Senate Roll Call 320, 111th Congress · October 13, 2009

A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

56 yea · 38 nayCloture Motion Rejected6 not voting or present
Democrat54 yea · 1 nay
Republican0 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Invoking cloture advances an appropriations bill, supporting fiscal expansion.

    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 (56)

Nay (38)

Not voting or present (6)

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