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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 607, 110th Congress · July 9, 2008

To limit retroactive immunity for providing assistance to the United States to instances in which a Federal court determines the assistance was provided in connection with an intelligence activity that was constitutional.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

37 yea · 61 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 13 nay
Republican0 yea · 47 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6304 ↗

FISA Amendments Act of 2008

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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.90): Limiting retroactive immunity restricts executive surveillance authority.

    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 (37)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (2)

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