Senate Roll Call 249, 110th Congress · July 17, 2007
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
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(0.90): Authorizing DOD appropriations expands military capacity and operations.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Authorizing DOD appropriations increases federal spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (47)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (9)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- James M. InhofeDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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