Senate Roll Call 636, 110th Congress · July 31, 2008
A bill to amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Policy area: Education — 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.
- EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”
model(0.90): Reauthorizing Higher Education Act maintains and expands federal education role.
Tagged by: policy-area:Education
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (83)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- 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
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- 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
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- 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 (8)
Not voting or present (9)
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Norm ColemanDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Charles T. HagelDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Amy KlobucharDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
- Olympia J. SnowePresent
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