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Senate Roll Call 171, 113th Congress · July 10, 2013

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the current reduced interest rate for undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans for 1 year, to modify required distribution rules for pension plans, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

51 yea · 49 nayCloture Motion Rejected
Democrat50 yea · 1 nay
Republican0 yea · 46 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1238

Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013

Policy area: Education — 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.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Cloture advances extending federal student loan interest rate reductions, expanding federal role.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Education

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

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

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