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Senate Roll Call 116, 110th Congress · March 27, 2007

To strike language that would tie the hands of the Commander-in-Chief by imposing an arbitrary timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, thereby undermining the position of American Armed Forces and jeopardizing the successful conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

48 yea · 50 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 47 nay
Republican45 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1591 ↗

U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.95): Striking a withdrawal timetable maintains military presence, pushing toward military expansion.

    Tagged by: keyword:armed forces

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A vote on troop withdrawal timetables is a war powers policy fight; fiscal impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (48)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (2)

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