Senate Roll Call 81, 114th Congress · March 24, 2015

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay, which may include preventing discrimination on the basis of sex and preventing retaliation against employees for seeking or discussing wage information.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

56 yea · 43 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present

Democrat1 yea · 42 nay

Republican53 yea · 0 nay

Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 11 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.

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.

Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.95): Preventing sex discrimination and wage retaliation broadens civil rights protections.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination,equal pay
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Equal pay regulations focus on non-discrimination policy, making its direct impact on fiscal spending unclear.
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 (56)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (1)

Ted CruzDid not vote

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