This electronic AFL-CIO Voting Record will let you know where your lawmakers stand on such working family issues as strengthening Social Security and Medicare, freedom to join a union, workplace safety and more.

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Budget Resolution

	Date: Apr 02, 2009 Passed: 55-43 AFL-CIO Position: Support		Vote: 10 Votes For: 55 Votes Against: 43 Not Voting: 0

The Senate budget resolution increased discretionary spending by $490 billion over five years—restoring funding to housing, education, job training, and safety and health care programs that had been consistently cut during the past eight years. The resolution also provided a reserve fund for health care reform, education reform and a “cap-and-trade” program to cut the nation’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The resolution passed April 2 on a vote of 55-43 (R: 0-41; D: 53-2; I: 2-0). Y=R, N=W

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State	Name	Party	Vote
AK	Murkowski	R	(Nay )
AK	Begich	D	(Yea )
AL	Shelby	R	(Nay )
AL	Sessions, J.	R	(Nay )
AR	Pryor	D	(Yea )
AR	Lincoln	D	(Yea )
AZ	McCain	R	(Nay )
AZ	Kyl	R	(Nay )
CA	Feinstein	D	(Yea )
CA	Boxer	D	(Yea )
CO	Udall, Mark	D	(Yea )
CO	Salazar,	D
CO	Bennet	D	(Yea )
CT	Dodd	D	(Yea )
CT	Lieberman	I	(Yea )

=	Voted right way, in support of the organization-endorsed position
=	Voted wrong way, in opposition to the organization-endorsed position
=	Vote not counted