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Senate Roll Call 146, 108th Congress · May 8, 2003

A bill to exclude United States persons from the definition of "foreign power" under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 relating to international terrorism.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

90 yea · 4 nayBill Passed6 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 4 nay
Republican49 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 113

A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to cover individuals, other than United States persons, who engage in international terrorism without affiliation with an international terrorist group.

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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Excluding US persons from foreign power definitions restricts surveillance authority under FISA.

    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 (90)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (6)

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