Senate Roll Call 305, 111th Congress · October 1, 2009
To provide for testimony before Congress on the additional forces and resources required to meet United States objectives with respect to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010
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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Providing for congressional testimony is oversight, not a direct change in military force.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (40)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Jon Kyl
- George S. LeMieux
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (59)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Al Franken
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Paul G. Kirk Jr.
- 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
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- Evan BayhDid not vote
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