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Senate Roll Call 397, 112th Congress · June 21, 2012

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

95 yea · 4 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 4 nay
Republican46 yea · 0 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3240

Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012

Policy area: Agriculture and Food — 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.

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Eliminating convention public funding alters spending, not tax rates or tax revenues.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting spending on political conventions cuts federal outlays for deficit reduction.

    Tagged by: keyword:deficit reduction

    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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