Senate Roll Call 342, 112th Congress · May 24, 2012
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act concerning claims about the effects of foods and dietary supplements on health-related conditions and disease, to prohibit employees of the Food and Drug Administration from carrying firearms and making arrests without warrants, and to adjust the mens rea of certain prohibited acts under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to knowing and willful.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act
Policy area: Health — 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Dietary supplement claims and FDA enforcement powers are unrelated to health coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (78)
- Lamar Alexander
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Roy Blunt
- Scott P. Brown
- Sherrod Brown
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher A. Coons
- Bob Corker
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- Al Franken
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- John Hoeven
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Joe Manchin, III
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Rob Portman
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Marco Rubio
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (15)
Not voting or present (7)
- Daniel K. AkakaDid not vote
- Richard BlumenthalDid not vote
- Barbara BoxerDid not vote
- Dean HellerDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- Mark KirkDid not vote
- Debbie StabenowDid not vote
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