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Senate Roll Call 585, 111th Congress · June 15, 2010

To ensure that any new revenues to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund will be used for the purposes of the fund and not used as a budget gimmick to offset deficit spending.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

48 yea · 49 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 48 nay
Republican39 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4213 ↗

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Directing trust fund revenues to specific uses does not cut or raise taxes.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

Yea (48)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (3)

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