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Senate Roll Call 80, 111th Congress · March 4, 2009

To prohibit taxpayer dollars from being earmarked to 14 clients of a lobbying firm under Federal investigation for making campaign donations in exchange for political favors for the group's clients.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

43 yea · 52 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 49 nay
Republican37 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1105 ↗

Omnibus Appropriations Act, 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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting earmarks to specified lobbying firm clients cuts 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 (43)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (4)

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