Senate Roll Call 639, 110th Congress · September 8, 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 the Cloture Motion
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 annual defense authorization bill.
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 defense spending authorization.
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 (83)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- 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
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (17)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Samuel D. BrownbackDid not vote
- Hillary Rodham ClintonDid not vote
- Elizabeth H. DoleDid not vote
- John Eric EnsignDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Mary L. LandrieuDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Claire McCaskillDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
- John E. SununuDid not vote
- David VitterDid not vote
- Roger F. WickerDid not vote
- Ron WydenDid not vote
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