Senate Roll Call 39, 111th Congress · February 4, 2009

To ensure that the $1 trillion spending bill is not used to expand the scope of the Federal Government by adding new spending programs.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

35 yea · 62 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present

Democrat0 yea · 56 nay

Republican35 yea · 4 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1 ↗

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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 restraint”
model(0.90): Restricting creation of new spending programs represents fiscal restraint.
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 (35)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (2)

Judd A. GreggDid not vote
Edward M. KennedyDid not vote

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