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Senate Roll Call 602, 109th Congress · September 7, 2006

To prohibit the use of funds for a public relations program designed to monitor news media in the United States and the Middle East and create a database of news stories to promote positive coverage of the war in Iraq.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

51 yea · 44 nayMotion to Table Agreed to5 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 43 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5631 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007

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 expansion”

    model(0.80): Tabling kills a prohibition on propaganda monitoring, continuing military PR.

    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 (51)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (5)

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