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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 54, 111th Congress · February 6, 2009

To provide the same temporary increase in the FMAP for all States and to permit States to choose the period through June 2011 for receiving the increase.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

47 yea · 49 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 45 nay
Republican36 yea · 2 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(0.95): Increasing the FMAP rate 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 (47)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (3)

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