Senate Roll Call 309, 110th Congress · August 3, 2007
A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide additional procedures for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence information and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Protect America Act of 2007
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(0.95): Expanding foreign intelligence surveillance authority expands executive surveillance powers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
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 (60)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard Burr
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- 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
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Amy Klobuchar
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Mel Martinez
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Pat Roberts
- Ken Salazar
- 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
- Jim Webb
Nay (28)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Sherrod Brown
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Robert Menendez
- Barack Obama
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (12)
- Lamar AlexanderDid not vote
- Barbara BoxerDid not vote
- Jim BunningDid not vote
- Byron L. DorganDid not vote
- Judd A. GreggDid not vote
- Tom HarkinDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Patty MurrayDid not vote
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