Senate Roll Call 554, 110th Congress · April 24, 2008
An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance veterans' insurance and housing benefits, to improve benefits and services for transitioning servicemembers, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 (0.75) Veterans benefits do not directly alter military war powers or deployment levels.
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 (96)
- 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
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- 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
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- 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
- 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
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (1)
Not voting or present (3)
- Jim DeMintDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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