Senate Roll Call 499, 109th Congress · May 18, 2006
To establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to States and local governments for the costs of providing health care and educational services to noncitizens, and to provide additional funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
Policy area: Immigration — 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.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.85): Provides financial assistance and expands health coverage support for noncitizens.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Expansive”
model(0.85): Provides grant funding for health and educational services for noncitizens.
Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (43)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Ken Salazar
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ron Wyden
Nay (52)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Michael DeWine
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (5)
- Jim BunningDid not vote
- Byron L. DorganDid not vote
- Mel MartinezDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
- Craig ThomasDid not vote
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