Senate Roll Call 68, 110th Congress · March 9, 2007
To prohibit the recruitment of persons to participate in terrorism, to clarify that the revocation of an alien's visa or other documentation is not subject to judicial review, to strengthen the Federal Government's ability to detain dangerous criminal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and child molesters, until they can be removed from the United States, to prohibit the rewarding of suicide bombings and allow adequate punishments for terrorists murders, kidnappings, and sexual assaults, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Improving America's Security Act of 2007
Policy area: Emergency Management — 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.
- ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Restrictive”
model(0.90): Restricting judicial review of visa revocations and increasing alien detentions tightens immigration rules.
Tagged by: keyword:visa
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (46)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Jim Bunning
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Nay (49)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- 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
- Kent Conrad
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- 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
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (5)
- Samuel D. BrownbackDid not vote
- Richard BurrDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
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