Other Years for Risch (R)
Other Senators for 2009
An 'X' in the P column indicates a vote where a Senator's vote differs from the vote of the majority of their Party.
| Vote Number | Vote | P | Date | Issue | Question | Result | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00001 | Yea | X | 11-Jan | S. 22 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S. 22; Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act of 2008 |
| 00002 | Yea | X | 14-Jan | S. 22 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on S.22.; Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act of 2008 |
| 00003 | Yea | X | 15-Jan | S. 22 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S.22 as Amended.; Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act of 2008 |
| 00004 | Nay | 15-Jan | S. 181 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.181; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | |
| 00005 | Yea | 15-Jan | S.J.Res. 5 | On the Joint Resolution | Rejected | S.J.Res. 5; A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of obligations under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. | |
| 00006 | Yea | 21-Jan | PN64-1 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Hillary Rodham Clinton, of New York, to be Secretary of State | |
| 00007 | Yea | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 25 | Rejected | Hutchison Amendment No. 25; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00008 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 26 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Specter Amdt. No. 26; To provide a rule of construction. | |
| 00009 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 27 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Specter Amdt. No. 27; To limit the application of the bill to discriminatory compensation decisions. | |
| 00010 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 28 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Enzi Amdt. No. 28; To clarify standing. | |
| 00011 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 31 | Agreed to | Motion to Table DeMint Amdt. No. 31; To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities. | |
| 00012 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 37 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Isakson Amdt. No. 37; To limit the application of the Act to claims resulting from discriminatory compensation decisions that are adopted on or after the date of enactment of the Act. | |
| 00013 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 34 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Vitter Amdt. No. 34; To preserve open competition and Federal Government neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects. | |
| 00014 | Nay | 22-Jan | S. 181 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S. 181; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | |
| 00015 | Nay | 26-Jan | PN64-6 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be Secretary of the Treasury | |
| 00016 | Nay | 27-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 43 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Demint Amdt. No. 43; To require States to impose cost-sharing for any individual enrolled in a State child health plan whose income exceeds 200 percent of the poverty line. | |
| 00017 | Yea | 27-Jan | PN65-17 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Daniel K. Tarullo, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
| 00018 | Yea | 28-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 40 | Rejected | McConnell Amdt. No. 40; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00019 | Yea | 28-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 65 | Rejected | Martinez Amdt. No. 65; To restore the prohibition on funding of nongovernmental organizations that promote abortion as a method of birth control (the "Mexico City Policy"). | |
| 00020 | Nay | 28-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 67 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Cornyn Amdt. No. 67; To ensure redistributed funds go towards coverage of low-income children or outreach and enrollment of low-income children, rather than to States that will use the funds to cover children from higher income families. | |
| 00021 | Yea | 28-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 75 | Rejected | Roberts Amdt. No. 75; To prohibit CHIP coverage for higher income children and to prohibit any payments to a State from its CHIP allotments for any fiscal year quarter in which the State Medicaid income eligibility level for children is greater than the income eligibility level for children under CHIP. | |
| 00022 | Yea | 28-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 46 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 46; To reinstate the crowd out policy agreed to in section 116 of H.R. 3963 (CHIPRA II), as agreed to and passed by the House and Senate. | |
| 00023 | Yea | 28-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 77 | Rejected | Murkowski Amdt. No. 77; To provide for the development of best practice recommendations and to ensure coverage of low income children. | |
| 00024 | Yea | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 47 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 47; To ensure that children do not lose their private insurance and that uninsured children can get access to private insurance. | |
| 00025 | Nay | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 74 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Bunning Amdt. No. 74 as Modified; To eliminate any exceptions to the prohibition on States receiving an enhanced Federal matching rate for providing coverage to children whose family income exceeds 300 percent of the poverty line. | |
| 00026 | Yea | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 80 | Rejected | Hatch Amdt. No. 80; To codify regulations specifying that an unborn child is eligible for child health assistance. | |
| 00027 | Yea | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 85 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 85; To provide an above-the-line Federal income tax deduction for health care costs of certain children in an amount comparable to the average federal share of the benefit provided to any non-citizen child for medical assistance or child health assistance. | |
| 00028 | Yea | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 86 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 86; To ensure that American children have high-quality health coverage that fits their individual needs. | |
| 00029 | Nay | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 63 | Agreed to | Bingaman Amdt. No. 63 as Modified; To clarify that new paperwork and enrollment barriers are not created in the Express Lane Enrollment option and that income may be determined by Express Lane agencies based on State income tax records or returns. | |
| 00030 | Nay | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 93 | Rejected | Hutchison Amdt. No. 93; To provide assistance for States with percentages of children with no health insurance coverage above the national average. | |
| 00031 | Nay | 29-Jan | H.R. 2 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 2 as Amended; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 | |
| 00032 | Nay | 02-Feb | PN64-7 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Eric H. Holder, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Attorney General | |
| 00033 | Nay | 03-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 110 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Re: Murray Amdt. No. 110 Emergency Designation; To strengthen the infrastructure investments made by the bill. | |
| 00034 | Yea | 03-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 109 | Agreed to | Coburn Amdt. No. 109; To strike the $246 million tax earmark for Hollywood production companies. | |
| 00035 | Yea | 03-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 104 | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Sec. 201 of S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress Re: Mikulski Amdt. 104; To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles. | |
| 00036 | Yea | 03-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 112 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Sec. 201 of S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress Re: Boxer Amdt. No. 112; To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for dividends received from controlled foreign corporations for an additional year, and for other purposes. | |
| 00037 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 179 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 179; To eliminate unnecessary spending. | |
| 00038 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 168 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Sec. 201 of S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress, Re: DeMint Amdt. No. 168; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00039 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 238 | Rejected | Thune Amdt. No. 238; To ensure that the $1 trillion spending bill is not used to expand the scope of the Federal Government by adding new spending programs. | |
| 00040 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 278 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Re: McCain Amdt. No. 278; To reimplement Gramm-Rudman-Hollings to require deficit reduction and spending cuts upon 2 consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth. | |
| 00041 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 262 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Inhofe Amdt. No. 262; To appropriate, with an offset, $5,232,000,000 for procurement for the Department of Defense to reconstitute military units to an acceptable readiness rating and to restock prepositioned assets and war reserve material. | |
| 00042 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 277 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Sec. 201 of S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress, Re: Cornyn Amdt. No. 277; To reduce income taxes for all working taxpayers. | |
| 00043 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 242 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Section 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress, Bunning Amdt. No. 242; To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend for 2009 the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits, and for other purposes. | |
| 00044 | Yea | 04-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 279 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 279; To prohibit the applicability of Buy American requirements in the Act to the utilization of funds provided by the Act. | |
| 00045 | Yea | 05-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 364 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA McCain Amdt. No. 364 As Modified; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00046 | Yea | 05-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 140 | Rejected | Feingold Amdt. No. 140; To provide greater accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking and requiring disclosure of lobbying by recipients of Federal funds. | |
| 00047 | Yea | 05-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 189 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 189; To allow the free exercise of religion at institutions of higher education that receive funding under section 803 of division A. | |
| 00048 | Yea | 05-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 353 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Ensign Amdt. No. 353; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00049 | Yea | 05-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 197 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Thune Amdt. No. 197; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00050 | Nay | 05-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 176 | Rejected | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 176; To require the use of competitive procedures to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements funded under this Act. | |
| 00051 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 309 | Agreed to | Coburn Amdt. No. 309; To ensure that taxpayer money is not lost on wasteful and non-stimulative projects. | |
| 00052 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 176 | Agreed to | Coburn Amdt. No. 176; To require the use of competitive procedures to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements funded under this Act. | |
| 00053 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 501 | Rejected | Graham Amdt. No. 501 As Modified; To limit wasteful spending, to fund a systematic program of foreclosure prevention, to be administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes. | |
| 00054 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 297 | Rejected | Grassley Amdt. No. 297; To provide the same temporary increase in the FMAP for all States and to permit States to choose the period through June 2011 for receiving the increase. | |
| 00055 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 274 | Agreed to | Motion to Waive CBA Re: Cantwell Amdt. No. 274; To improve provisions relating to energy tax incentives and provisions relating manufacturing tax incentives for energy property. | |
| 00056 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 107 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 107; Prohibiting direct or indirect use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). | |
| 00057 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 531 | Rejected | Bunning Amdt. No. 531; To temporarily increase the limitations on offsetting ordinary income with capital losses and to strike the 5-year carry back of general business credits. | |
| 00058 | Yea | 06-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 538 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Sec. 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress Thune Amdt. No. 538; To replace all spending and tax provisions with a direct rebate to all Americans filing a tax return. | |
| 00059 | Nay | 09-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 570 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on Collins-Nelson (NE) Amdt. No. 570 to H.R. 1; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00060 | Nay | 10-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 570 | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Sec. 201 of S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress Re: Amdt. No. 570; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00061 | Nay | 10-Feb | H.R. 1 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 1 as Amended; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | |
| 00062 | Yea | 11-Feb | PN65-11 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation William J. Lynn, III, of Virginia, to the Deputy Secretary of Defense | |
| 00063 | Nay | 13-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Sec. 204(a)(5)(A) of S.Con.Res. 21, 110th Congress; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | |
| 00064 | Nay | 13-Feb | H.R. 1 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | |
| 00065 | Nay | 24-Feb | S. 160 | On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 160; District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 | |
| 00066 | Nay | X | 24-Feb | PN64-18 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Hilda L. Solis of California, to be Secretary of Labor |
| 00067 | Yea | 25-Feb | S. 160 | On the Point of Order | Not Well Taken | Is The Constitutional Point of Order Well Taken?; District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 | |
| 00068 | Nay | 25-Feb | S. 160 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 581 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 581; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00069 | Yea | 26-Feb | S. 160 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 585 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 585; To provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to the State of Maryland, and for other purposes. | |
| 00070 | Nay | 26-Feb | S. 160 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 591 | Agreed to | Durbin Amdt. No. 591; To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest. | |
| 00071 | Yea | 26-Feb | S. 160 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 573 | Agreed to | DeMint Amdt. No. 573; To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine. | |
| 00072 | Yea | 26-Feb | S. 160 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 575 | Agreed to | Ensign Amdt. No. 575; To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia. | |
| 00073 | Nay | 26-Feb | S. 160 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S. 160 As Amended; District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 | |
| 00074 | Yea | 03-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 592 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 592; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00075 | Yea | 03-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Motion | Rejected | Ensign Motion to Commit with Instructions re: H.R. 1105; Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00076 | Yea | 03-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Motion | Rejected | Hutchison Motion to Commit with Instructions re: H.R. 1105; Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00077 | Yea | 04-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 596 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 596; To require the use of competitive procedures to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements funded under this Act. | |
| 00078 | Yea | 04-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 608 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 608; To provide funds for the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act from funds already provided for the Weed and Seed Program. | |
| 00079 | Yea | 04-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 610 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 610; To prohibit funding for congressional earmarks for wasteful and parochial pork projects. | |
| 00080 | Yea | 04-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 623 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 623 as Modified; To prohibit taxpayer dollars from being earmarked to 14 clients of a lobbying firm under Federal investigation for making campaign donations in exchange for political favors for the group's clients. | |
| 00081 | Yea | 05-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 607 | Rejected | Wicker Amdt. No. 607 as Modified; To require that amounts appropriated for the United Nations Population Fund are not used by organizations which support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. | |
| 00082 | Yea | 05-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 599 | Rejected | Murkowski Amdt. No. 599; To modify a provision relating to the repromulgation of final rules by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce. | |
| 00083 | Yea | 05-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 613 | Rejected | Inhofe Amdt. No. 613; To provide that no funds may be made available to make any assessed contribution or voluntary payment of the United Nations if the United Nations implements or imposes any taxation on any United States persons. | |
| 00084 | Yea | 05-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 635 | Rejected | Motion to Waive the CBA re: Thune Amdt. No. 635 as Modified; To provide funding for the Emergency Fund for Indian Safety and Health, with an offset. | |
| 00085 | Yea | 05-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 634 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 634; To prohibit the expenditure of amounts made available under this Act in a contract with any company that has a business presence in Iran's energy sector. | |
| 00086 | Yea | 09-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 593 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 593; To prohibit the use of funds provided in the bill. | |
| 00087 | Yea | 09-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 630 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 630; To require a report on counter-smuggling efforts in Gaza. | |
| 00088 | Yea | 09-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 631 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 631; To require the Secretary of State to certify that funds made available for reconstruction efforts in Gaza will not be diverted to Hamas or entities controlled by Hamas. | |
| 00089 | Yea | 09-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 668 | Rejected | Enzi Amdt. No. 668; To prohibit the use of funds to modify certain HIV/AIDS funding formulas. | |
| 00090 | Nay | X | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 673 | Rejected | Cornyn Amdt. No. 673; To prevent collection of excessive contingency legal fees by lawyers hired to protect the public interest. |
| 00091 | Yea | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 674 | Rejected | Cornyn Amdt. No. 674; To prohibit the use of funds to implement an Executive Order relating to employee notice of rights under Federal labor laws. | |
| 00092 | Yea | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 662 | Rejected | Thune Amdt. No. 662; To prohibit the use of funds by the Federal Communications Commission to repromulgate the Fairness Doctrine. | |
| 00093 | Nay | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 604 | Agreed to | Motion To Table Sessions Amdt. No. 604; To extend the pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation established in title IV of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1966 for 6 years. | |
| 00094 | Yea | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 615 | Rejected | Ensign Amdt. No. 615; To strike the restrictions on the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program. | |
| 00095 | Nay | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 621 | Agreed to | Motion To Table Vitter Amdt. No. 621; To repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. | |
| 00096 | Nay | 10-Mar | H.R. 1105 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 1105; Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00097 | Nay | 12-Mar | PN68 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation David W. Ogden, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General | |
| 00098 | Nay | 12-Mar | PN71 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Thomas John Perrelli, Of Virginia, To be Associate Attorney General | |
| 00099 | Yea | X | 16-Mar | H.R. 146 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 146; Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 |
| 00100 | Yea | 18-Mar | PN64-9 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Ronald Kirk, of Texas, to be U.S. Trade Representative | |
| 00101 | Yea | 18-Mar | H.R. 146 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 680 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 680; To ensure that the general public has full access to our national parks and to promote the health and safety of all visitors and employees of the National Park Service. | |
| 00102 | Nay | 18-Mar | H.R. 146 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 679 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 679; To provide for the future energy needs of the United States and eliminate restrictions on the development of renewable energy. | |
| 00103 | Nay | 18-Mar | H.R. 146 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 675 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 675; To prohibit the use of eminent domain and to ensure that no American has their property forcibly taken from them by authorities granted under this Act. | |
| 00104 | Nay | 19-Mar | H.R. 146 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 677 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 677; To require Federal agencies to determine on an annual basis the quantity of land that is owned by each Federal agency and the cost to taxpayers of the ownership of the land. | |
| 00105 | Yea | X | 19-Mar | H.R. 146 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 683 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 683; To prohibit funding for congressional earmarks for wasteful and parochial pork projects. |
| 00106 | Yea | 19-Mar | H.R. 146 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 146 as Amended; Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 | |
| 00107 | Nay | 19-Mar | PN67 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Elena Kagan, of Massachusetts, to be Solicitor General | |
| 00108 | Nay | X | 23-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 1388; Serve America Act |
| 00109 | Yea | 25-Mar | PN80 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation David S. Kris, of Maryland, to be Assistant Attorney General | |
| 00110 | Yea | 25-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 688 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Re: Crapo Amdt. No. 688; To increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes. | |
| 00111 | Nay | 25-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 715 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Ensign Amdt. No. 715 As Modified; To clarify that nonprofit organizations assisted under the Nonprofit Capacity Building Program include certain crisis pregnancy centers, and organizations that serve battered women or victims of rape or incest. | |
| 00112 | Nay | 26-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 721 | Agreed to | Baucus Amdt. No. 721; To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Federal income tax deduction for charitable giving. | |
| 00113 | Yea | 26-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 716 | Rejected | Thune Amdt. No. 716; To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Federal income tax deduction for charitable giving. | |
| 00114 | Nay | 26-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 705 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Vitter Amdt. No. 705; To prohibit ACORN, or organizations affiliated or co-located with ACORN, from receiving assistance under this Act. | |
| 00115 | Nay | X | 26-Mar | H.R. 1388 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 1388 As Amended; Serve America Act |
| 00116 | Nay | 31-Mar | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 749 | Agreed to | Boxer Amdt. No. 749; To require that certain legislation relating to clean energy technologies not increase electricity or gasoline prices or increase the overall burden on consumers. | |
| 00117 | Yea | 31-Mar | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 731 | Agreed to | Thune Amdt. No. 731; To amend the deficit-neutral reserve fund for climate change legislation to require that such legislation does not increase electricity or gasoline prices. | |
| 00118 | Yea | 31-Mar | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 739 | Rejected | Gregg Amdt. No. 739; To prohibit the consideration of any budget resolution, or amendment thereto, or conference report thereon, that shows an increase in the public debt, for the period of the current fiscal year through the next 10 years, equal to or greater than the debt accumulated from 1789 to January 20, 2009. | |
| 00119 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 747 | Rejected | Alexander Amdt. No. 747; To create runaway debt point of order against consideration of a budget resolution that projects the ratio of public debt to GDP for any fiscal year in excess of 90% to ensure the continued viability of US dollar and prevent doubling or tripling the debt burden on future generations. | |
| 00120 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 772 | Rejected | Sessions Amdt. No. 772, As Modified; To restore the budget discipline of the Federal Government by freezing nondefense discretionary spending for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, and limiting the growth of nondefense discretionary spending to one percent annually for fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014. | |
| 00121 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 804 | Agreed to | Ensign Amdt. No. 804; To protect middle-income taxpayers from tax increases by providing a point of order against legislation that increase taxes on them, including taxes that arise, directly or indirectly, from Federal revenues derived from climate change or similar legislation. | |
| 00122 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 806 | Agreed to | Cornyn Amdt. No. 806; To protect small businesses from higher taxes. | |
| 00123 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 835 | Rejected | Gregg Amdt. No. 835; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to address our Nations long term fiscal problems. | |
| 00124 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 844 | Rejected | Crapo Amdt. No. 844; To protect the fiscal discipline on discretionary spending exercised by the reported budget resolution by extending the resolution's discretionary spending limits to exactly the same level as already assumed in the resolution to make sure that debt is not increased further than contemplated by this budget resolution as a result of subsequent budget resolution or appropriation bills. | |
| 00125 | Nay | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 869 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA re: Whitehouse Amdt. No. 869; Relative to a deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in clean energy and preserve the environment. | |
| 00126 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 735 | Agreed to | Johanns Amdt. No. 735; To prohibit the use of reconciliation in the Senate for climate change legislation involving a cap and trade system. | |
| 00127 | Yea | 01-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 793 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 793; To protect all patients by prohibiting the use of data obtained from comparative effectiveness research to deny coverage of items or services under Federal health care programs and to ensure that comparative effectiveness research accounts for advancements in genomics and personalized medicine, the unique needs of health disparity populations, and differences in the treatment response and the treatment preferences of patients. | |
| 00128 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 805 | Rejected | Ensign Amdt. No. 805; To require certain higher-income beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare prescription drug benefit to pay higher premiums, as is currently required for physicians' services and outpatient services, and as proposed in the budget of the United States Government most recently submitted by the President. | |
| 00129 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 882 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 882, as Modified; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00130 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 913 | Agreed to | Dodd Amdt. No. 913; To provide for enhanced oversight of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System concerning the use of emergency economic assistance. | |
| 00131 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 875 | Agreed to | Sanders Amdt. No. 875; To require information from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System about the use of emergency economic assistance. | |
| 00132 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion to Recommit | Rejected | Johanns Motion to Recommit to the Committee on the Budget; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00133 | Nay | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 949 | Agreed to | Reed Amdt. No. 949; To provide for the expenditure of the remaining Troubled Asset Relief Program funds for the benefit of consumers. | |
| 00134 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 787 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 787; To end $272 billion in spending on bailouts under TARP and reduce record deficits and levels of debt. | |
| 00135 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 910 | Agreed to | Graham Amdt. No. 910; To protect middle-income taxpayers from a national energy tax. | |
| 00136 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 931 | Rejected | Landrieu Amdt. No. 931; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas leasing revenues. | |
| 00137 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 953 | Agreed to | Boxer Amdt. No. 953, as Modified; To add a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers afterschool program. | |
| 00138 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 803 | Agreed to | Thune Amdt. No. 803; To protect charitable giving by ensuring that organizations that provide important religious, educational, cultural, health care, and environmental services are not negatively impacted by changes to the Federal income tax deduction for charitable donations. | |
| 00139 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 950 | Rejected | Grassley Amdt. No. 950; To ensure that millions of middle-income families do not face an alternative minimum tax increase in 2013 and 2014 and that the budget resolution reflects that result. | |
| 00140 | Nay | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 811 | Rejected | Sanders Amdt. No. 811; To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund to establish a national usury law, and for other purposes. | |
| 00141 | Yea | X | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 879 | Agreed to | Stabenow Amdt. No. 879; To modify the authorization for climate change legislation. |
| 00142 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 926 | Agreed to | Bond Amdt. No. 926; To protect workers from significant job loss by providing a point of order against climate change or similar legislation that raises Federal revenues to such an extent that it causes significant job loss in manufacturing- or coal-dependent U.S. regions such as the Midwest, Great Plains or South. | |
| 00143 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 954 | Rejected | Bennett Amdt. No. 954, As Modified; To save the American taxpayer over $150,000,000,000 by adjusting spending levels beyond fiscal year 2010 to compensate for spending from the stimulus bill in the corresponding fiscal years. | |
| 00144 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 934 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA re: Cornyn Amdt. No. 934; To increase transparency by requiring five days of public review of legislation before passage by the Senate. | |
| 00145 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 798 | Agreed to | Motion to Waive CBA re: Wicker Amdt. No. 798; To ensure that law abiding Amtrak passengers are allowed to securely transport firearms in their checked baggage. | |
| 00146 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 873 | Agreed to | Lincoln Amdt. No. 873; To create a deficit-neutral reserve fund for estate tax relief. | |
| 00147 | Nay | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 974 | Agreed to | Durbin Amdt. No. 974, As Modified; To provide that no additional estate tax relief beyone that which is already assumed in this resolution, which protects over 99.7 percent of estates from the estate tax, shall be allowed under any deficit-neutral reserve fund unless an equal amount of aggregate tax relief is also provided to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year. | |
| 00148 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 965 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 965; To prevent taxpayer-funded bailouts for auto manufacturers. | |
| 00149 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 967 | Rejected | Motion To Waive CBA DeMint Amdt. No. 967; To implement President Obama's earmark reforms. | |
| 00150 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 969 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA re: Sessions Amdt. No. 969; To provide for a point of order against any appropriations bill that fails to fully fund the construction of the Southwest border fence. | |
| 00151 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 964 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 964; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect small and home businesses from the burdensome and impractical requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. | |
| 00152 | Yea | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 828 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 828; To protect the freedom of conscience for patients and the right of health care providers to serve patients without violating their moral and religious convictions. | |
| 00153 | Yea | X | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 937 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 937; To require States to implement drug testing programs for applicants for and recipients of assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which would encourage healthy, drug-free families instead of encouraging dependent behavior or on-going drug abuse. |
| 00154 | Nay | 02-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Concurrent Resolution | Agreed to | S. Con. Res. 13 as Amended; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00155 | Yea | 20-Apr | PN115 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Nomination of Tony West, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General | |
| 00156 | Yea | 20-Apr | PN88 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Nomination of Lanny A. Breuer to be an Assistant Attorney General | |
| 00157 | Yea | 20-Apr | PN89 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Nomination of Christine Anne Varney, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General | |
| 00158 | Nay | X | 20-Apr | PN171 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Christopher R. Hill, of R.I. to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq |
| 00159 | Nay | 21-Apr | PN171 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation of Christopher R. Hill, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq | |
| 00160 | Yea | 22-Apr | S. 386 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 985 | Agreed to | Kyl Amdt. No. 985; To modify the definition of the term "obligation". | |
| 00161 | Yea | 22-Apr | S. 386 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 995 | Agreed to | Isakson Amdt. No. 995; To establish the Financial Markets Commission, and for other purposes. | |
| 00162 | Nay | X | 23-Apr | S. 386 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 986 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 986; To limit the amount that may be deducted from proceeds due to the United States under the False Claims Act for purposes of compensating private intervenors to the greater of $50,000,000 or 300 percent of the expenses and costs of the intervenor. |
| 00163 | Nay | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Stabenow Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00164 | Yea | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Johanns Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00165 | Yea | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Rejected | Gregg Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00166 | Yea | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Rejected | Sessions Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00167 | Yea | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Cornyn Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00168 | Yea | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Agreed to | DeMint Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00169 | Yea | 23-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Vitter Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00170 | Yea | 27-Apr | S. 386 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Committee Substitute to S. 386; Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 | |
| 00171 | Yea | 28-Apr | S. 386 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S. 386 as Amended; Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 | |
| 00172 | Nay | 28-Apr | PN188 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Kathleen Sebelius, of Kansas, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services | |
| 00173 | Nay | 29-Apr | S.Con.Res. 13 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany S. Con. Res. 13; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. | |
| 00174 | Nay | 30-Apr | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1014 | Rejected | Durbin Amdt. No. 1014; To prevent mortgage foreclosures and preserve home values. | |
| 00175 | Yea | 30-Apr | PN178 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Thomas L. Strickland, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife | |
| 00176 | Yea | 04-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1016 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 1016; To authorize and remove impediments to the repayment of funds received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. | |
| 00177 | Yea | 04-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1017 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 1017; To provide that the primary and foundational responsibility of the Federal Housing Administration shall be to safeguard and preserve the solvency of the Administration. | |
| 00178 | Yea | 05-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1019 | Rejected | Corker Amdt. No. 1019; To address safe harbor for certain servicers. | |
| 00179 | Yea | 05-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1030 | Rejected | Thune Amdt. No. 1030; To require the Secretary of the Treasury to use any amounts repaid by a financial institution that is a recipient of assistance under the Troubled Assets Relief Program to reduce the authorization level under the TARP. | |
| 00180 | Yea | 05-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1043 | Agreed to | Ensign Amdt. NO. 1043; Of a perfecting nature. | |
| 00181 | Yea | 05-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1026 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 1026; To prohibit the use of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds for the purchase of common stock, and for other purposes. | |
| 00182 | Nay | 06-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1036 | Agreed to | Kerry Amdt. No. 1036 As Modified; To protect the interests of bona fide tenants in the case of any foreclosure on any dwelling or residential real property, and for other purposes. | |
| 00183 | Yea | 06-May | S. 896 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 1042 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Sect. 202, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress, Coburn Amdt. No. 1042; To establish a pilot program for the expedited disposal of Federal real property. | |
| 00184 | Yea | 06-May | S. 896 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1021 | Agreed to | Grassley Amdt. No. 1021 As Modified ; To amend chapter 7 of title 31, United States Code, to provide the Comptroller General additional audit authorities relating to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes. | |
| 00185 | Yea | 06-May | S. 896 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S. 896 As Amended; Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 | |
| 00186 | Yea | 07-May | S. 454 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S. 454 As Amended; Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 | |
| 00187 | Yea | 07-May | PN185 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation R. Gil Kerlikowske, of Washington to be Director of National Drug Control Policy | |
| 00188 | Yea | 12-May | H.R. 627 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1067 | Agreed to | Coburn Amdt. No. 1067; To protect innocent Americans from violent crime in national parks and refuges. | |
| 00189 | Nay | 13-May | PN139 | On the Cloture Motion | Rejected | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of David J. Hayes, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior | |
| 00190 | Yea | 13-May | H.R. 627 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1066 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 1066; To specify acceptable forms of identification for the opening of credit card accounts. | |
| 00191 | Nay | 13-May | H.R. 627 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 1062 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Sanders Amdt. No. 1062; To establish a national consumer credit usury rate. | |
| 00192 | Yea | 13-May | H.R. 627 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 1085 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Re: Gregg Amdt. No. 1085; To enhance public knowledge regarding the national debt by requiring the publication of the facts about the national debt on IRS instructions, Federal websites, and in new legislation. | |
| 00193 | Yea | 19-May | H.R. 627 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1058 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Dodd Amdt. No. 1058; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00194 | Yea | 19-May | H.R. 627 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 627 As Amended; Credit CARD Act of 2009 | |
| 00195 | Yea | 19-May | PN65-3 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission | |
| 00196 | Yea | 20-May | H.R. 2346 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1133 | Agreed to | Inouye Amdt. No. 1133; To prohibit funding to transfer, release, or incarcerate detainees detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to or within the United States. | |
| 00197 | Yea | 20-May | S. 454 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany S. 454; Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 | |
| 00198 | Yea | 20-May | H.R. 2346 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1136 | Agreed to | McConnell Amdt. No. 1136 As Modified; To limit the release of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pending a report on the prisoner population at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. | |
| 00199 | Yea | 20-May | H.R. 2346 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1140 | Agreed to | Brownback Amdt. No. 1140 As Modified; To express the sense of the Senate on consultation with State and local governments in the transfer to the United States of detainees at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | |
| 00200 | Yea | 21-May | H.R. 2346 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 2346; Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00201 | Yea | 21-May | H.R. 2346 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1138 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 1138; To strike the provisions relating to increased funding for the International Monetary Fund. | |
| 00202 | Yea | 21-May | H.R. 2346 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | HR 2346 As Amended ; Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00203 | Yea | 02-Jun | H.R. 1256 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 1256; Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act | |
| 00204 | Nay | 08-Jun | H.R. 1256 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1247 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. 1247 ; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00205 | Yea | 09-Jun | H.R. 1256 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1246 | Rejected | Burr Amdt. No. 1246; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00206 | Nay | 10-Jun | H.R. 1256 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 1256; Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act | |
| 00207 | Yea | 11-Jun | H.R. 1256 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 1256 As Amended; Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act | |
| 00208 | Yea | 16-Jun | S. 1023 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on Motion to Proceed to S.1023; Travel Promotion Act of 2009 | |
| 00209 | Nay | 18-Jun | H.R. 2346 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive All Applicable Points of Order Under Rule 44 on Conference Report on H.R. 2346; Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00210 | Yea | 18-Jun | H.R. 2346 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2346; Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 | |
| 00211 | Nay | 22-Jun | S. 1023 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1347 | Rejected | Motion to Invoke Cloture on Dorgan Amendment No. 1347; Of a perfecting nature. | |
| 00212 | Nay | 24-Jun | PN225 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, of Connecticut, to be Legal Counsel of the Department of State | |
| 00213 | Nay | 25-Jun | PN225 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, of Connecticut, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State | |
| 00214 | Nay | 25-Jun | H.R. 2918 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Table Motion to Commit H.R. 2918 to the Committee on Appropriations with Instructions; Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00215 | Yea | 06-Jul | H.R. 2918 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1366 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 1366; To strike the earmark for the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. | |
| 00216 | Nay | 06-Jul | H.R. 2918 | On the Point of Order S.Amdt. 1365 | Not Sustained | Is it in order to offer the Amendment (SA 1365) to the Bill; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00217 | Nay | 06-Jul | H.R. 2918 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 2918 As Amended; Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00218 | Yea | 07-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1400 | Rejected | McCain Amendment No. 1400; To eliminate the appropriation for the Over-the-Road Bus Security Assistance, as recommended by the Administration. | |
| 00219 | Nay | 08-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 1371 | Rejected | Motion to Table Sessions Amdt. No. 1371; To make the pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation for aliens permanent and to improve verification of immigration status of employees. | |
| 00220 | Yea | 08-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1399 | Agreed to | DeMint Amdt. No. 1399; To require the completion of at least 700 miles of reinforced fencing along the southwest border by December 31, 2010. | |
| 00221 | Yea | 08-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1402 | Rejected | Feingold Amdt. No. 1402; To require grants for Emergency Operations Centers and financial assistance for the predisaster mitigation program to be awarded without regard to earmarks. | |
| 00222 | Yea | 08-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1406 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 1406; To strike the provision relating to the Loran-C signal, as recommended by the Administration. | |
| 00223 | Yea | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1432 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 1432; To strike the earmark for the City of Whitefish Emergency Operations Center. | |
| 00224 | Yea | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1378 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 1378; To strike the appropriation for the Advanced Training Center. | |
| 00225 | Nay | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1467 | Agreed to | Vitter Amdt. No. 1467; To prevent funds from being used to prevent individuals from importing prescription drugs under certain circumstances. | |
| 00226 | Nay | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1468 | Agreed to | Murray Amdt. No. 1468; To prohibit certain funds from being used for certain efforts. | |
| 00227 | Yea | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1434 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 1434; To prohibit no bid contracts by requiring the use of competitive procedures to award contracts and grants funded under this Act. | |
| 00228 | Nay | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1430 | Rejected | Sanders Amdt. No. 1430; To increase funding for firefighter assistance grants and recruitment and retention grants. | |
| 00229 | Yea | 09-Jul | H.R. 2892 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 2892 As Amended; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00230 | Nay | X | 13-Jul | PN387 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Robert M. Groves, to be Director of the Census |
| 00231 | Yea | 16-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1611 | Rejected | Hatch Amdt. No. 1611; To prevent duplication in the Federal government. | |
| 00232 | Yea | 16-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1610 | Agreed to | Brownback Amdt. No. 1610; To clarify that the amendment shall not be construed or applied to infringe on First Amendment rights. | |
| 00233 | Nay | 16-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1511 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on Leahy Amdt. No. 1511; To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes. | |
| 00234 | Yea | 20-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1616 | Agreed to | Sessions Amdt. No. 1616; To prohibit assault or battery of a United States serviceman on account of the military service of the United States serviceman or status as a serviceman. | |
| 00235 | Nay | 21-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1469 | Agreed to | Levin Amdt. No. 1469; To strike $1,750,000,000 in Procurement, Air Force funding for F-22A aircraft procurement, and to restore operation and maintenance, military personnel, and other funding in divisions A and B that was reduced in order to authorize such appropriation. | |
| 00236 | Yea | 21-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1528 | Agreed to | Lieberman Amdt. No. 1528; To provide authority to increase Army active-duty end strengths for fiscal year 2010 as well as fiscal year 2011 and 2012. | |
| 00237 | Yea | 22-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1618 | Rejected | Thune Amdt. No. 1618; To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to allow citizens who have concealed carry permits from the State in which they reside to carry concealed firearms in another State that grants concealed carry permits, if the individual complies with the laws of the State. | |
| 00238 | Nay | 22-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1761 | Agreed to | Kerry Amdt. No. 1761; To express the sense of the Senate that the United States should fully enforce existing sanctions, and should explore additional sanctions, with respect to North Korea and to require a review to determine whether North Korea should be re-listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. | |
| 00239 | Yea | 22-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1597 | Rejected | Brownback Amdt. No. 1597; To express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State should redesignate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. | |
| 00240 | Nay | 23-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1767 | Rejected | Bayh Amdt. No. 1767; To provide for the continued development of a competitive propulsion system for the Joint Strike Fighter program and additional amounts, with an offset, for UH-1Y/AH-1Z rotary wing aircraft and Joint Strike Fighter program management reserves. | |
| 00241 | Yea | 23-Jul | S. 1390 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1525 | Rejected | Isakson Amdt. No. 1525; To repeal the sunset of authority to provide fire resistant rayon fiber for the production of uniforms from foreign sources. | |
| 00242 | Yea | 23-Jul | S. 1390 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S.1390 As Amended; National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 | |
| 00243 | Yea | 28-Jul | H.R. 3183 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1814 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 1814; To prohibit the use of funds to carry out any project or site-specific location identified in the committee report unless the project is specifically authorized or to carry out an unauthorized appropriation. | |
| 00244 | Yea | 29-Jul | H.R. 3183 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 1862 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA re: Alexander Amdt. No. 1862; To limit disbursement of additional funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to certain automobile manufacturers, to impose fiduciary duties on the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to shareholders of such automobile manufacturers, to require the issuance of shares of common stock to eligible taxpayers which represent the common stock holdings of the United States Government in such automobile manufacturers, and for other purposes. | |
| 00245 | Yea | 29-Jul | H.R. 3183 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1879 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 1879; To reduce the appropriation for Departmental Administration of the Department of Energy so that the Department can set an example for all Americans by reducing unnecessary energy usage. | |
| 00246 | Yea | 29-Jul | H.R. 3183 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1895 | Agreed to | Dorgan Amdt. No. 1895; To provide requirements regarding the authority of the Department of Energy to enter into certain contracts. | |
| 00247 | Yea | 29-Jul | H.R. 3183 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1884 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 1884; To prohibit no bid contracts by requiring the use of competitive procedures to award contracts and grants funded under this Act. | |
| 00248 | Yea | 29-Jul | H.R. 3183 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3183 as Amended; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00249 | Yea | 30-Jul | H.R. 3357 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1907 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 1907 as Modified; To temporarily protect the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. | |
| 00250 | Yea | 30-Jul | H.R. 3357 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1905 | Rejected | Ensign Amdt. No. 1905 as Modified; To offset the appropriation of funds to replenish the Unemployment Trust Fund with unobligated nonveterans funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. | |
| 00251 | Yea | 30-Jul | H.R. 3357 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 1904 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA Bond Amdt. No. 1904; To repeal a certain provision of the SAFETEA-LU. | |
| 00252 | Yea | 30-Jul | H.R. 3357 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2223 | Rejected | Sessions Amdt. No. 2223; To restore sums to the Highway Trust Fund. | |
| 00253 | Yea | X | 30-Jul | H.R. 3357 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive CBA Re: H.R. 3357; A bill to restore sums to the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes. |
| 00254 | Yea | 30-Jul | H.R. 3357 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3357; A bill to restore sums to the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes. | |
| 00255 | Yea | 03-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1908 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke cloture on the Kohl Amdt. No. 1908; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00256 | Nay | X | 03-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1910 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 1910; To strike a setaside for certain grants authorized under the Rural Electrification Act. |
| 00257 | Yea | X | 04-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1912 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 1912; To strike a provision relating to certain watershed and flood prevention operations. |
| 00258 | Yea | 04-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2244 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 2244; To support the proposal of the President to eliminate funding in the bill for digital conversion efforts of the Department of Agriculture that are duplicative of existing Federal efforts. | |
| 00259 | Yea | 04-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On the Motion | Rejected | Coburn Motion To Commit To The Committee on Appropriations ; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00260 | Nay | 04-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2276 | Agreed to | Motion to Waive the CBA Sanders Amdt. No. 2276; To modify the amount made available for the Farm Service Agency. | |
| 00261 | Yea | 04-Aug | H.R. 2997 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 2997 As Amended; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00262 | Nay | 06-Aug | PN506 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court | |
| 00263 | Yea | X | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2300 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Harkin Amdt. No. 2300; To limit the provision of vouchers to individuals with adjusted gross incomes of less than $50,000 or joint filers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $75,000. |
| 00264 | Yea | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2301 | Rejected | Kyl Amdt. No. 2301 As Modified; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00265 | Yea | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2302 | Rejected | Motion To Waive CBA re: Gregg Amdt. No. 2302; To protect the generations of tomorrow from paying for new cars today. | |
| 00266 | Yea | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2304 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA re: Coburn Amdt. No. 2304; To provide assistance to charities and families in need. | |
| 00267 | Yea | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2303 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 2303; To provide for a date certain for termination of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. | |
| 00268 | Yea | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2306 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Section 201, S. Con. Res. 21, 110th Congress re: Isakson Amdt. No. 2306; To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit for certain home purchases, and to transfer to the Treasury unobligated funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the amount of the reduction in revenue resulting from such credit. | |
| 00269 | Nay | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Sec. 403(e)(1), S. Con. Res. 13 of 111th Congress re: H.R. 3435; A bill making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program. | |
| 00270 | Nay | 06-Aug | H.R. 3435 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3435; A bill making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program. | |
| 00271 | Nay | X | 08-Sep | S. 1023 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1347 | Agreed to | Upon Reconsideration Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Dorgan Amdt. No. 1347; Of a perfecting nature. |
| 00272 | Nay | X | 09-Sep | S. 1023 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S.1023 As Amended; Travel Promotion Act of 2009 |
| 00273 | Nay | 09-Sep | PN323 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Cass R. Sunstein, to be Administrator of the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget | |
| 00274 | Nay | 10-Sep | PN323 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation of Cass R. Sunstein, of MA, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget | |
| 00275 | Yea | 14-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2355 | Agreed to | Johanns Amendment Number 2355 as modified; Prohibiting use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). | |
| 00276 | Nay | 15-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2375 | Agreed to | Motion To Table McCain Amdt. No. 2375; To provide that all amounts in the bill provided for congressional earmarks shall be made available for NextGen and NextGen programs. | |
| 00277 | Yea | 16-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2371 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 2371; To remove an unnecessary and burdensome mandate on the States, by allowing them to opt out of a provision that requires States to spend 10 percent of their surface transportation funds on enhancement projects such as road-kill reduction and highway beautification. | |
| 00278 | Yea | 16-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2372 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 2372; To fully provide for the critical surface transportation needs of the United States by prohibiting funds from being used on lower-priority projects, such as transportation museums. | |
| 00279 | Yea | 16-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2366 | Agreed to | Wicker Amdt. No. 2366 As Modified; To permit Amtrak passengers to safely transport firearms and ammunition in their checked baggage. | |
| 00280 | Yea | 16-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2376 | Agreed to | Vitter Amendment Number 2376; To affirm the continuing existence of the community service requirements under section 12(c) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. | |
| 00281 | Yea | 16-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2361 | Rejected | Gregg Amdt. No. 2361; To prohibit the use of stimulus funds for self-congratulatory signage that allows lawmakers to promote their spending of taxpayer dollars on stimulus projects. | |
| 00282 | Yea | 16-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Motion | Rejected | Ensign Motion To Recommit Bill H.R. 3288 to the Committee on Appropriations; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00283 | Yea | 17-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2359 | Rejected | Vitter Amdt. No. 2359.; To prohibit the use of funds for households that include convicted drug dealing or domestic violence offenders or members of violent gangs that occupy rebuilt public housing in New Orleans. | |
| 00284 | Yea | 17-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2410 | Rejected | DeMint Amdt. No. 2410; To limit the use of funds for the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport. | |
| 00285 | Yea | 17-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2403 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 2403 As Modified; To prohibit the use of funds to carry out the Brownsfields Economic Development Initiative program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. | |
| 00286 | Yea | 17-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On the Motion | Rejected | Kyl Motion to Recommit H.R. 3288 to the Committee on Appropriations; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00287 | Nay | 17-Sep | H.R. 3288 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3288 as amended; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00288 | Yea | 17-Sep | PN263 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation of Gerard E. Lynch, of New York, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit | |
| 00289 | Yea | 17-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2394 | Agreed to | Johanns Amdt. No. 2394; Prohibiting use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). | |
| 00290 | Yea | 22-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2460 | Agreed to | Feinstein Amdt. No. 2460, as Modified; To support the participation of the Smithsonian Institution in activities under the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009. | |
| 00291 | Yea | 22-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2461 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 2461; To prohibit the use of appropriated funds for the Des Moines Art Center in the State of Iowa. | |
| 00292 | Nay | 22-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Table the DeMint Motion to Recommit to Committee on Appropriations; Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00293 | Nay | 23-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion to Table | Agreed to | Motion to Table Vitter Motion to Recommit H.R. 2996 to the Committee on Appropriations; Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00294 | Nay | 23-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2514 | Agreed to | Motion to Table McCaskill Amdt. No. 2514; To strike the earmarks for the Save America's Treasure program and to provide criteria for the distribution of grants under that program. | |
| 00295 | Nay | 24-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2549 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Vitter Amdt. No. 2549; To ensure that the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change (commonly known as the "White House Climate Change Czar") is not directing actions of departments and agencies funded by this Act. | |
| 00296 | Nay | 24-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion to Table | Agreed to | Motion to Table Ensign Motion to Recommit H.R. 2996 to the Committee on Appropriations; Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00297 | Nay | X | 24-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2483 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 2483; To help preserve America's national parks and other public land treasures by reducing maintenance backlogs that threaten the health and safety of visitors. |
| 00298 | Yea | X | 24-Sep | H.R. 2996 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 2996, As Amended; Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 |
| 00299 | Yea | 29-Sep | PN681 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Jeffrey L. Viken, of South Dakota, to be U.S. District Judge | |
| 00300 | Nay | 30-Sep | H.R. 2918 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Rule XXVIII Re: H.R. 2918 Conference Report; Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00301 | Nay | 30-Sep | H.R. 2918 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Budget Act Points of Order Re: H.R. 2918 Conference Report; Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00302 | Nay | 30-Sep | H.R. 2918 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2918; Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00303 | Nay | 30-Sep | H.R. 3326 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2558 | Rejected | Motion to Waive CBA McCain Amdt. No. 2558; To strike amounts available for procurement of C-17 aircraft in excess of the amount requested by the President in the budget for fiscal year 2010 and to make such amounts available instead for operation and maintenance in accordance with amounts requested by the President in that budget and for Operation and Maintenance, Army, for overseas contingent operations. | |
| 00304 | Nay | 01-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2593 | Agreed to | Levin Amdt. No. 2593; Relating to hearings on strategy and resources with respect to Afghanistan and Pakistan. | |
| 00305 | Yea | 01-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2575 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 2575; To provide for testimony before Congress on the additional forces and resources required to meet United States objectives with respect to Afghanistan and Pakistan. | |
| 00306 | Nay | 06-Oct | PN261 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Nomination of Thomas E. Perez, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General | |
| 00307 | Yea | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2567 | Rejected | Barrasso Amdt. No. 2567; To prohibit the use of funds for the Center on Climate Change and National Security of the Central Intelligence Agency. | |
| 00308 | Nay | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2588 | Agreed to | Franken Amdt. No. 2588; To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims. | |
| 00309 | Yea | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2596 | Agreed to | Bond Amdt. No. 2596; To limit the early retirement of tactical aircraft. | |
| 00310 | Nay | X | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2565 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 2565; To ensure transparency and accountability by providing that each member of Congress and the Secretary of Defense has the ability to review $1,500,000,000 in taxpayer funds allocated to the National Guard and Reserve components of the Armed Forces. |
| 00311 | Yea | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2566 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 2566; To restore $166,000,000 for the Armed Forces to prepare for and conduct combat operations, by eliminating low-priority congressionally directed spending items for all operations and maintenance accounts. | |
| 00312 | Nay | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2580 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 2580; To strike amounts available for procurement of C-17 aircraft in excess of the amount requested by the President in the budget for fiscal year 2010. | |
| 00313 | Nay | X | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2623 | Agreed to | Inouye Amdt. No. 2623; To provide full and open competition for congressionally directed spending items. |
| 00314 | Yea | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2583 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 2583; To strike funding for the MARIAH Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Development Program. | |
| 00315 | Yea | 06-Oct | H.R. 3326 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3326 as Amended; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00316 | Nay | 07-Oct | H.R. 2847 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2630 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Vitter Amdt. No. 2630; To prohibit funds from being used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. | |
| 00317 | Yea | 08-Oct | H.R. 2847 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2626 | Rejected | McCain Amdt. No. 2626; To eliminate funding for Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning and Construction. | |
| 00318 | Yea | X | 08-Oct | H.R. 2997 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2997; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 |
| 00319 | Yea | 08-Oct | H.R. 2847 | On the Motion to Recommit | Rejected | Ensign Motion to Recommit to H.R. 2847 to the Committee of Appropriations; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00320 | Nay | 13-Oct | H.R. 2847 | On the Cloture Motion | Rejected | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Committee Substitute to H.R. 2847; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00321 | Yea | 14-Oct | H.R. 3183 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3183; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00322 | Yea | 15-Oct | H.R. 3183 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3183; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00323 | Nay | X | 20-Oct | H.R. 2892 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2892; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 |
| 00324 | Yea | 21-Oct | PN716 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Roberto A. Lange, of South Dakota, to be U.S. District Judge | |
| 00325 | Nay | 21-Oct | S. 1776 | On the Cloture Motion | Rejected | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S. 1776; Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009 | |
| 00326 | Nay | 22-Oct | H.R. 2647 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2647; National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 | |
| 00327 | Nay | 22-Oct | H.R. 2647 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2647; National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 | |
| 00328 | Yea | 27-Oct | PN715 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Irene Cornelia Berger of West Virginia to be U.S. District Judge. | |
| 00329 | Yea | 27-Oct | H.R. 3548 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 3548; Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 | |
| 00330 | Nay | 29-Oct | H.R. 2996 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Rule XXVIII Re: H.R. 2996.; Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00331 | Yea | X | 29-Oct | H.R. 2996 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2996; Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 |
| 00332 | Yea | 02-Nov | H.R. 3548 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2712 | Agreed to | Motion to invoke cloture on the Baucus Amdt. No. 2712 to H.R. 3548.; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00333 | Yea | 04-Nov | H.R. 3548 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 3548; Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 | |
| 00334 | Yea | 04-Nov | H.R. 3548 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3548 as amended.; Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 | |
| 00335 | Nay | 05-Nov | H.R. 2847 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Upon Reconsideration Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Reported Committee Substitute to H.R. 2847.; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00336 | Yea | 05-Nov | H.R. 2847 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2631 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No 2631.; To redirect funding of the National Science Foundation toward practical scientific research | |
| 00337 | Yea | 05-Nov | H.R. 2847 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2667 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Section 302(F) of CBA re: Coburn Amdt. No. 2667; To reduce waste and abuse at the Department of Commerce. | |
| 00338 | Nay | 05-Nov | H.R. 2847 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2669 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Graham Amdt. No. 2669; To prohibit the use of funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. | |
| 00339 | Yea | 05-Nov | H.R. 2847 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2648 | Rejected | Motion to Waive Sec. 302(F) of CBA Ensign Amdt. No. 2648 as modified.; To provide additional funds for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program by reducing corporate welfare programs. | |
| 00340 | Nay | 05-Nov | H.R. 2847 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 2847 As Amended.; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00341 | Yea | 05-Nov | PN557 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Ignacia S. Moreno, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General. | |
| 00342 | Not Voting | 09-Nov | PN262 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Andre M. Davis, of Maryland, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit | |
| 00343 | Not Voting | 09-Nov | PN680 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Charlene Edwards Honeywell, of Florida, to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida | |
| 00344 | Yea | 16-Nov | H.R. 3082 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2757 | Agreed to | Coburn Amdt. No. 2757; To require public disclosure of certain reports. | |
| 00345 | Yea | 16-Nov | H.R. 3082 | On the Motion | Rejected | Coburn Motion to Commit H.R. 3082 to the Committee on Appropriations; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00346 | Yea | 17-Nov | H.R. 3082 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2733 | Agreed to | Johnson Amdt. No. 2733; To increase by $50,000,000 the amount available for the Department of Veterans Affairs for minor construction projects for the purpose of converting unused Department of Veterans Affairs structures into housing with supportive services for homeless veterans, and to provide an offset. | |
| 00347 | Nay | 17-Nov | H.R. 3082 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2774 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Inhofe Amdt. No 2774; To prohibit the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to construct or modify a facility in the United States or its territories to permanently or temporarily hold any individual held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | |
| 00348 | Yea | 17-Nov | H.R. 3082 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3082 As Amended; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00349 | Nay | 17-Nov | PN187 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of David F. Hamilton, of Indiana, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit. | |
| 00350 | Nay | 19-Nov | PN187 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation David F. Hamilton, of Indiana, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit. | |
| 00351 | Yea | 19-Nov | S. 1963 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2785 | Rejected | Coburn Amdt. No. 2785; To transfer funding for the United Nations contributions to offset costs of providing assistance to family caregivers of disabled veterans. | |
| 00352 | Yea | 19-Nov | S. 1963 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | S. 1963; Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009 | |
| 00353 | Nay | 21-Nov | H.R. 3590 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 3590; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00354 | Yea | 01-Dec | PN841 | On the Nomination | Confirmed | Confirmation Jacqueline H. Nguyen, of CA, to be U.S. District Judge | |
| 00355 | Nay | 03-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2791 | Agreed to | Mikulski Amdt. 2791 As Amended; To clarify provisions relating to first dollar coverage for preventive services for women. | |
| 00356 | Yea | 03-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2836 | Rejected | Murkowski Amdt. No. 2836; To ensure patients receive doctor recommendations for preventive health services, including mammograms and cervical cancer screening, without interference from government or insurance company bureaucrats. | |
| 00357 | Yea | 03-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2826 | Agreed to | Bennet Amdt. No. 2826; To protect and improve guaranteed Medicare benefits. | |
| 00358 | Yea | 03-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion | Rejected | McCain Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00359 | Yea | 04-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2870 | Agreed to | Whitehouse Amdt. No. 2870; To promote fiscal responsibility by protecting the Social Security surplus and CLASS program savings in this Act. | |
| 00360 | Yea | 04-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2901 | Rejected | Thune Amdt. No. 2901; To eliminate new entitlement programs and limit the government control over the health care of American families. | |
| 00361 | Yea | 04-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2899 | Agreed to | Stabenow Amdt. No. 2899; To ensure that there is no reduction or elimination of any benefits guaranteed by law to participants in Medicare Advantage plans. | |
| 00362 | Yea | 04-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion | Rejected | Hatch Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00363 | Yea | 05-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2926 | Agreed to | Kerry Amdt No. 2926; To protect home health benefits. | |
| 00364 | Yea | 05-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion | Rejected | Johanns Motion to Commit to the Committee on Finance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00365 | Nay | 06-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2905 | Rejected | Lincoln Amdt. No. 2905; To modify the limit on excessive remuneration paid by certain health insurance providers to set the limit at the same levels as the salary of the President of the United States. | |
| 00366 | Nay | X | 06-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2927 | Rejected | Ensign Amdt. No. 2927; Relative to limitation on amount of attorney's contingency fees. |
| 00367 | Yea | 07-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2939 | Agreed to | Pryor Amdt. No. 2939; To require the Secretary to provide information regarding enrollee satisfaction with qualified health plans offered through an Exchange through the Internet portal. | |
| 00368 | Yea | 07-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2942 | Rejected | Gregg Amdt. No. 2942; To prevent Medicare from being raided for new entitlements and to use Medicare savings to save Medicare. | |
| 00369 | Nay | 08-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2962 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Nelson Amdt. No. 2962; To prohibit the use of Federal funds for abortions. | |
| 00370 | Yea | 08-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion | Rejected | McCain Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00371 | Nay | 10-Dec | H.R. 3288 | On the Motion to Proceed | Agreed to | Motion to Proceed to the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3288; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00372 | Nay | 11-Dec | H.R. 3288 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive Rule XXVIII Re: Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3288; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00373 | Nay | 12-Dec | H.R. 3288 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3288; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00374 | Nay | 13-Dec | H.R. 3288 | On the Conference Report | Agreed to | Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3288; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00375 | Yea | 15-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3183 | Agreed to | Baucus Amdt. No. 3183; To protect middle class families from tax increases. | |
| 00376 | Yea | 15-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion | Rejected | Crapo Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00377 | Yea | 15-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2793 | Rejected | Dorgan Amdt. No. 2793; To provide for the importation of prescription drugs. | |
| 00378 | Yea | 15-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3156 | Rejected | Lautenberg Amdt. No. 3156; To provide for the importation of prescription drugs. | |
| 00379 | Nay | 16-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion to Table | Agreed to | Motion to Table Hutchison Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00380 | Nay | 17-Dec | H.R. 3326 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Reid Motion to Recess Until 12:01 A.M., Friday, December 18, 2009; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00381 | Nay | 18-Dec | H.R. 3326 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 3326.; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00382 | Nay | 19-Dec | H.R. 3326 | On the Motion to Table | Agreed to | Motion to Table the Motion to Concur in the House Amdt. with an Amendment (Amdt. No. 3248); Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00383 | Nay | 19-Dec | H.R. 3326 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Waive CBA and All Budget Resolutions Re: Motion to Concur in House Amdt. to H.R. 3326; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00384 | Yea | 19-Dec | H.R. 3326 | On the Motion | Agreed to | Motion To Concur In The House Amdt. To The Senate Amdt.; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 | |
| 00385 | Nay | 21-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 3276 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Reid Amdt. No. 3276 to Amdt. No. 2786 to H.R. 3590; To improve the bill. | |
| 00386 | Nay | 22-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 3278 | Agreed to | Motion to Table Reid Amdt. No. 3278; To change the enactment date. | |
| 00387 | Nay | 22-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3276 | Agreed to | Reid Amdt. No. 3276; To improve the bill. | |
| 00388 | Nay | 22-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 2786 | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Reid Substitute Amdt. No. 2786; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00389 | Yea | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Point of Order S.Amdt. 2786 | Not Well Taken | Is The Ensign Point of Order Well Taken?; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00390 | Nay | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion S.Amdt. 2786 | Agreed to | Motion to Waive the CBA Section 425 A(2) re: Reid Amdt. No. 2786; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00391 | Nay | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2786 | Agreed to | Motion to Table the Appeal of the Ruling of the Chair Re: Rule XLIV of Paragraph 4 Against Amdt. No. 2786; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00392 | Yea | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Point of Order S.Amdt. 2786 | Not Well Taken | Is the Hutchison Constitutional Point of Order Well Taken?; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00393 | Nay | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 2786 | Agreed to | Motion to Table DeMint Motion to Suspend Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00394 | Nay | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2786 | Agreed to | Reid Substitute Amendment No. 2786 As Amended; In the nature of a substitute. | |
| 00395 | Nay | 23-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On the Cloture Motion | Agreed to | Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 3590; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00396 | Nay | 24-Dec | H.R. 3590 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 3590 as Amended; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| 00397 | Nay | 24-Dec | H.R. 4314 | On Passage of the Bill | Passed | H.R. 4314; A bill to permit continued financing of Government operations. |
253 Yea, 142 Nay, 2 No Vote (0.50%)
28 votes (7.05%) not with majority of R-party.