Senate bill · 111th Congress · Did not become law
District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009
Sponsor: Sen. Joseph Lieberman I-CTWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 6, 2009
- Committee actionFeb 11, 2009
- Passed SenateFeb 26, 2009 · 61–37
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 2, 2009 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 160.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 160, District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009” on February 17, 2009. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on February 11, 2009</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 17, 2009 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20488
- CBO publication date
- February 17, 2009
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 160, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/s/160
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
9a55323ac5f73888bd1a4df0cf16d95db349d5c751795114fa6c9eeb6748e325
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 160, District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009” on February 17, 2009. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on February 11, 2009”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 17, 2009 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20488
- CBO publication date
- February 17, 2009
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 160, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/s/160
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
9a55323ac5f73888bd1a4df0cf16d95db349d5c751795114fa6c9eeb6748e325
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 160, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 26, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
19 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 16 Democrats, 1 independent
3 of 19 cosponsors (16%) are from the other party.
Thomas Carper (D-DE), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Russell Feingold (D-WI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Carl Levin (D-MI), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Arlen Specter (D-PA), George Voinovich (R-OH).
More from the sponsor
Other 111th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
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- S. 2865 (111th) Congressional Award Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
- S. 2868 (111th) Federal Supply Schedules Usage Act of 2010
- S. 1510 (111th) United States Secret Service Uniformed Division Modernization Act of 2010
- S. 1860 (111th) A bill to permit each current member of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to serve for 3 terms.
- S. 1755 (111th) Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Enhancement Act of 2009
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.