Senate Roll Call 445, 109th Congress · March 28, 2006
To provide greater transparency with respect to lobbying activities, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify when organizations described in section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 must register as political committees, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006
Policy area: Congress — 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.
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Lobbying transparency and 527 regulation is campaign finance policy, not a tax vote.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (81)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- William H. Frist
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- Ken Salazar
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (16)
Not voting or present (3)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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