Senate Roll Call 198, 110th Congress · June 6, 2007
To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the national language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007
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.
- ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Restrictive”
model(0.85): Declaring English as the national language is a restrictive cultural and immigration requirement.
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 (64)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Amy Klobuchar
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Ron Wyden
Nay (33)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Pete V. Domenici
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Robert Menendez
- Patty Murray
- Barack Obama
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Not voting or present (2)
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
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