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Senate Roll Call 30, 112th Congress · March 2, 2011

To express the sense of the Senate in support of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

58 yea · 40 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat9 yea · 39 nay
Republican47 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 23 ↗

America Invents Act

Policy area: Commerce — 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 (0.95) Non-binding sense-of-the-Senate resolutions do not alter policy directly.

    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 (58)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (2)

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