Senate Roll Call 477, 110th Congress · February 28, 2008
Moving the United States toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, and modernizing our energy infrastructure, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
Policy area: Energy — 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.
- Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”
model(0.95): Advancing legislation promoting renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions aligns with climate action.
Tagged by: keyword:renewable energy
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Advancing tax incentives lowers tax obligations and cuts revenues.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (48)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- 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
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (46)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (6)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Tom CoburnDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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