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Senate Roll Call 553, 110th Congress · April 24, 2008

To increase benefits for disabled U.S. veterans and provide a fair benefit to World War II Filipino veterans for their service to the United States.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

41 yea · 56 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 48 nay
Republican40 yea · 6 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1315 ↗

Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Increasing veterans' benefits does not expand military force or war powers.

    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 (41)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (3)

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