Senate Roll Call 433, 110th Congress · December 14, 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 Conference Report
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(0.95): Authorizing defense spending expands military capabilities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Defense authorization expands federal budget 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 (90)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Sherrod Brown
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- 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
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (7)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Barbara BoxerDid not vote
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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