Senate Roll Call 114, 112th Congress · July 20, 2011
To require evidence of causal relationships for presumptions by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012
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 (0.80) Rule regarding evidentiary standards for VA claims is not directly a budget issue.
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 (69)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Kelly Ayotte
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Richard Blumenthal
- Barbara Boxer
- Scott P. Brown
- Sherrod Brown
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher A. Coons
- Richard J. Durbin
- Dianne Feinstein
- Al Franken
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Chuck Grassley
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Dean Heller
- John Hoeven
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Joe Manchin, III
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Marco Rubio
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (30)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Roy Blunt
- Saxby Chambliss
- Daniel Coats
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Ron Johnson
- Mark Kirk
- Jon Kyl
- Mike Lee
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Rand Paul
- Rob Portman
- James E. Risch
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Patrick J. Toomey
- David Vitter
- Roger F. Wicker
Not voting or present (1)
- John BoozmanDid not vote
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