Skip to content
Their Record

Senate Roll Call 4, 111th Congress · January 15, 2009

A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

72 yea · 23 nayCloture Motion Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat54 yea · 0 nay
Republican16 yea · 23 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 181 ↗

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.95): Cloture advances legislation broadening civil rights protections against pay discrimination.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (72)

Nay (23)

Not voting or present (3)

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.