Senate Roll Call 626, 110th Congress · July 25, 2008
A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act, to prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy commodities, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act of 2008
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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.
- Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Regulate”
model(0.95): Cloture advances regulatory measure against commodity speculation.
Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector
Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (50)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (43)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Arlen Specter
- John E. Sununu
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (7)
- Wayne A. AllardDid not vote
- Tom CoburnDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
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