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Senate Roll Call 336, 111th Congress · November 5, 2009

To redirect funding of the National Science Foundation toward practical scientific research

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

36 yea · 62 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 51 nay
Republican31 yea · 9 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Redirecting existing funds between research programs is a net-neutral budget transfer.

    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.

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