Senate Roll Call 637, 110th Congress · July 31, 2008
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
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 expansion”
model(0.95): Cloture advances defense authorization expanding military programs.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Cloture advances authorization of defense spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (51)
- 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.
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- 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
- 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
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (39)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- 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
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (10)
- Jim BunningDid not vote
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Norm ColemanDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Charles T. HagelDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Amy KlobucharDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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