Senate Roll Call 462, 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 Passage of the Bill
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 expansion”
model(0.85): Passing the FISA bill broadens national security 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 (68)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- 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
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- 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
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (29)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Robert Menendez
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (3)
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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