Senate Roll Call 89, 114th Congress · March 25, 2015

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to recognize that climate change is real and caused by human activity and that Congress needs to take action to cut carbon pollution.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

49 yea · 50 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present

Democrat42 yea · 1 nay

Republican5 yea · 48 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.

Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”
model(0.95): Recognizing human-caused climate change and calling for carbon cuts promotes climate action.
Tagged by: keyword:climate change
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A resolution acknowledging climate change addresses environmental policy, not direct fiscal expansion.
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 (49)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (1)

Ted CruzDid not vote

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