Senate Roll Call 528, 110th Congress · April 1, 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 reducing carbon emissions and promoting renewable energy supports climate action.
Tagged by: keyword:renewable energy
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.95): Providing tax incentives for renewable energy lowers tax obligations.
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 (94)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- 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
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- 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
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (1)
Not voting or present (5)
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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