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Senate Roll Call 170, 112th Congress · October 19, 2011

To ensure that the critical surface transportation needs of the United States are made a priority by prohibiting funds from being used on lower-priority projects, such as transportation museums and landscaping.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

59 yea · 39 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 2 nay
Republican10 yea · 36 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2112

Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Tabling a rider prohibiting specific spending projects is incidental or net-neutral on fiscal policy.

    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.

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