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Senate Roll Call 338, 111th Congress · November 5, 2009

To prohibit the use of funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

54 yea · 45 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat53 yea · 4 nay
Republican0 yea · 40 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 (0.95) Prohibiting funds for 9/11 prosecutions is a policy dispute, not a fiscal issue.

    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 (54)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (1)

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