Senate Roll Call 634, 109th Congress · November 16, 2006
To require as a precondition to United States-India peaceful atomic energy cooperation determinations by the President that United States nuclear cooperation with India does nothing to assist, encourage, or induce India to manufacture or acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original bill to exempt from certain requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 United States exports of nuclear materials, equipment, and technology to India, and to implement the United States Additional Protocol.
Policy area: International Affairs — 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): Adding preconditions and non-proliferation checks on nuclear cooperation encourages military restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:nuclear weapons
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 (25)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Ken Salazar
Nay (71)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- 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
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- 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
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (4)
- James M. InhofeDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Craig ThomasDid not vote
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