Saved history · 2009 and 2010

Laws of the 111th Congress

The 383 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2009 to January 3, 2011, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

383 laws
160 with a recorded vote · 223 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

71,765 individual votes saved for this Congress.

Laws with a recorded vote

Plain-language accounts for laws before January 3, 2025: Not started. A law's page shows the official title, the member votes we have saved and our saved files.

Public Law 111-15 · Became law Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009

A bill to amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (division A of Public Law 110-343) to provide the Special Inspector General with additional authorities and responsibilities, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 423–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 111-13 · Became law Serve America Act

Entitled The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an Act to reauthorize and reform the national service laws.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 275–149Senate 79–19
Public Law 111-11 · Became law Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009

To designate certain land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, to authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 285–140Senate 77–20
Public Law 111-8 · Became law Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009

Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 245–178Senate: voice vote
S. 234 · Became law Public Law 111-7

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2105 East Cook Street in Springfield, Illinois, as the “Colonel John H. Wilson, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 417–0Senate: without objection
H.J.Res. 38 · Became law Public Law 111-6

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2009, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 328–50Senate: without objection
Public Law 111-5 · Became law American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 246–183Senate 60–38
Public Law 111-4 · Became law DTV Delay Act

To postpone the DTV transition date.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 264–158Senate: without objection
Public Law 111-3 · Became law Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 290–135Senate 66–32
Public Law 111-2 · Became law Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 250–177Senate 61–36
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