Senate Roll Call 578, 109th Congress · July 20, 2006
A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.
- Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Expand access”
model(0.95): Amending and reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act protects and expands voting access.
Tagged by: keyword:voting rights
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
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
- 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
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mark Dayton
- Jim DeMint
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- 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
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- 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
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (2)
- Mike CrapoDid not vote
- Michael B. EnziDid not vote
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