Senate Roll Call 455, 110th Congress · February 12, 2008
To provide a statement of the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance and interception of certain communications may be conducted.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
FISA Amendments Act of 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 restraint”
model(0.85): Establishing exclusive statutory means for electronic surveillance restricts executive surveillance authority.
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 (57)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- 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
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- John E. Sununu
- Jon Tester
- George V. Voinovich
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (41)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Ben Nelson
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- John W. Warner
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (2)
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
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