Senate Roll Call 281, 107th Congress · September 14, 2001
A joint resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.
Question before the chamber: On the Joint Resolution
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Authorization for Use of Military Force
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.95): Authorizing the use of military force expands U.S. military operations.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (98)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Maria Cantwell
- Jean Carnahan
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Mike Crapo
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Reid Edwards
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Don Nickles
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Robert Torricelli
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (2)
- Larry E. CraigDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
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