Senate Roll Call 88, 111th Congress · March 9, 2009
To require the Secretary of State to certify that funds made available for reconstruction efforts in Gaza will not be diverted to Hamas or entities controlled by Hamas.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A foreign policy certification requirement is incidental to the budget axis.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (39)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Amy Klobuchar
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (56)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Judd A. Gregg
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward E. Kaufman
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- George V. Voinovich
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (4)
- Robert F. BennettDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- Mike JohannsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
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