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Senate Roll Call 279, 112th Congress · March 13, 2012

To lower the FY13 discretionary budget authority cap as set in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 by $11,000,000,000 in order to offset the general fund transfers to the Highway Trust Fund.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

40 yea · 58 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 50 nay
Republican40 yea · 5 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1813 ↗

MAP-21

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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(0.95): Lowering the discretionary budget authority cap reduces spending authority.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget

    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 (40)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (2)

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