Senate Roll Call 631, 111th Congress · September 16, 2010
An act to create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for small business job creation, and for other purposes
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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.
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.90): Providing tax incentives for small business job creation reduces tax revenue.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Capital investments and small business incentives are not direct financial regulation or deregulation.
Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector
Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (41)
- Lamar Alexander
- Evan Bayh
- Michael F. Bennet
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Scott P. Brown
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Saxby Chambliss
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Al Franken
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Amy Klobuchar
- Richard G. Lugar
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Pat Roberts
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (58)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Jim Bunning
- Roland Burris
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Tom Coburn
- Bob Corker
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Carte P. Goodwin
- Judd A. Gregg
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- George S. LeMieux
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- John McCain
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Bill Nelson
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- James E. Risch
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Not voting or present (1)
- Blanche Lambert LincolnDid not vote
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