For the Record

Small Business Administration: In a 389-32 vote, the House passed a bill to raise from $2 million to $3 million the cap on federally guaranteed loans made by banks in the Small Business Administration's main lending program. Taxpayers would back up to 90 percent of each "Section 7(a)" loan. The SBA has many criteria for determining whether a business is small enough to qualify for its programs. Manufacturing and mining companies, for example, are defined as "small" if they have less than 500 employees. Halvorson: Yes

Biggert: Yes

Foster: Yes

Extended jobless benefits: Senators voted 87-13 to provide 20 more weeks of jobless checks for those whose current allotments have expired or soon will expire and who live in states with at least 8.5 percent unemployment. The bill provides 14 additional weeks of benefits for the long-term jobless in all other states. The $2.4 billion cost would be offset by payroll-tax increases on employers. Jobless checks average $300 a week.

Durbin: Yes

Burris: Yes

Interior department budget: Voting 72-28, the Senate sent President Obama the conference report on a bill to appropriate $32.2 billion for the Department of the Interior and other agencies in fiscal 2010. The bill provides $1.5 billion for cleansing toxic-waste sites; $1.1 billion for the Bureau of Land Management; $761 million for the Smithsonian Institution; $475 million for restoring the Great Lakes; $385 million for addressing climate change and $335 million for the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.

Durbin: Yes

Burris: Yes