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However a critical vote on an amendment in March of 2002 threatened to indefinitely postpone CAFE.
The amendment charged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop a new standard,
the effect being to put on indefinite hold the McCain-Kerry bill. It passed by a vote of 62-38.
A political question of interest is whether there is evidence of monetary influence on a senator's
vote. Scott Preston, a professor of statistics at SUNY, Oswego, collected data on this