Senate Roll Call 525, 110th Congress · March 14, 2008
To restore full funding for the international affairs budget, in support of the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, nuclear nonproliferation, foreign assistance, fighting global AIDS, promoting sustainable development, and other efforts, with an offset.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) International affairs and foreign aid funding is foreign assistance, not military expansion.
Tagged by: keyword:afghanistan
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Restoring full funding for the international affairs budget increases federal spending.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (73)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- 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
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- 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
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (23)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Jim Bunning
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (4)
- Christopher S. BondDid not vote
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
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