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Senate Roll Call 47, 111th Congress · February 5, 2009

To allow the free exercise of religion at institutions of higher education that receive funding under section 803 of division A.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

43 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 51 nay
Republican37 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Religious exercise rules at higher education institutions do not affect spending levels.

    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 (43)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (2)

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