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Senate Roll Call 9, 111th Congress · January 22, 2009

To limit the application of the bill to discriminatory compensation decisions.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

55 yea · 39 nayMotion to Table Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat51 yea · 1 nay
Republican2 yea · 38 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 181

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that narrows civil rights protections preserves broader protections.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

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

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