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Senate Roll Call 461, 110th Congress · February 12, 2008

An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

69 yea · 29 nayCloture Motion Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat21 yea · 28 nay
Republican47 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2248 ↗

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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Cloture advances legislation modernizing and expanding foreign surveillance authorities.

    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 (69)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (2)

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