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Senate Roll Call 59, 113th Congress · March 22, 2013

To create a point of order against legislation that would create a Federal tax or fee on carbon emissions.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

53 yea · 46 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 44 nay
Republican45 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 8 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.

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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.80): Creating a point of order against carbon taxes promotes fiscal restraint against new revenue mechanisms.

    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.

Yea (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

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