Senate Roll Call 250, 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 capability.
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 defense appropriations increases fiscal 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 (41)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- 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
- Barack Obama
- 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 (37)
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Johnny Isakson
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- 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 (22)
- Lamar AlexanderDid not vote
- Wayne A. AllardDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Richard BurrDid not vote
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Kent ConradDid not vote
- John CornynDid not vote
- Jim DeMintDid not vote
- Elizabeth H. DoleDid not vote
- Dianne FeinsteinDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- James M. InhofeDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
- Jon KylDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Bill NelsonDid not vote
- Pat RobertsDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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