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
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- John Reid Edwards
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Don Nickles
- Mark L. Pryor
- 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
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (6)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Bob GrahamDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
- Joseph I. LiebermanDid not vote
- Lisa MurkowskiDid not vote
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