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Senate Roll Call 91, 113th Congress · March 23, 2013

To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

53 yea · 46 nayAmendment Agreed to1 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.

  • GunsA yea counts toward “Gun rights”

    model(0.95): Prevents entry into arms trade treaties and protects Second Amendment rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:second amendment

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure concerns gun rights and treaties rather than federal spending.

    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.

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