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Senate Roll Call 402, 111th Congress · January 26, 2010

To establish a Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action, to assure the long-term fiscal stability and economic security of the Federal Government of the United States, and to expand future prosperity and growth for all Americans.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

53 yea · 46 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 22 nay
Republican16 yea · 23 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 45 ↗

Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.

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): Establishing a task force for fiscal stability promotes spending 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 (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

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