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Senate Roll Call 369, 111th Congress · December 8, 2009

To prohibit the use of Federal funds for abortions.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

54 yea · 45 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 7 nay
Republican2 yea · 38 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3590 ↗

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.85): Tabling kills a restriction on funding for abortion health services, preserving coverage access.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Expand access”

    model(0.90): Tabling kills the prohibition on federal abortion funding, protecting abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

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)

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.