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Senate Roll Call 53, 111th Congress · February 6, 2009

To limit wasteful spending, to fund a systematic program of foreclosure prevention, to be administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

39 yea · 57 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 52 nay
Republican35 yea · 3 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Funding a foreclosure prevention program increases federal spending.

    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 (39)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (3)

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