Roll Call Vote #31 · 107th Congress · Session 2 · Feb 14, 2002, 12:18 PM (ET)
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2879 to S. 565 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2002)
Amendment S.Amdt. 2879 (To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified persons who have served their sentences.)
Amendment Rejected (31-63)
31 Yea
63 Nay
How the Parties Voted
Republican 44 senators
2 Yea / 36 Nay
6 not voting or present
Majority position: Nay
Democrat 43 senators
23 Yea / 20 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Independent 1 senator
1 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Independent Democrat 1 senator
1 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Crossed Party Lines
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Max Baucus (Democrat–MT) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Evan Bayh (Democrat–IN) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Joe Biden, Jr. (Democrat–DE) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
John Breaux (Democrat–LA) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Robert Byrd (Democrat–WV) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Jean Carnahan (Democrat–MO) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Kent Conrad (Democrat–ND) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Michael DeWine (Republican–OH) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Christopher Dodd (Democrat–CT) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Byron Dorgan (Democrat–ND) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
John Edwards (Democrat–NC) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Dianne Feinstein (Democrat–CA) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Bob Graham (Democrat–FL) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Tom Harkin (Democrat–IA) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Tim Johnson (Democrat–SD) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Mary Landrieu (Democrat–LA) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Bill Nelson (Democrat–FL) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Ben Nelson (Democrat–NE) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Jay Rockefeller, IV (Democrat–WV) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Rick Santorum (Republican–PA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Deborah Stabenow (Democrat–MI) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Robert Torricelli (Democrat–NJ) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 31
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- Maria Cantwell
- Max Cleland (GA)
- Hillary Clinton (NY)
- Jon Corzine (NJ)
- Thomas Daschle (SD)
- Mark Dayton (MN)
- Michael DeWine (OH)
- Dick Durbin
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Fritz Hollings (SC)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- James Jeffords (VT)
- Ted Kennedy (MA)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Blanche Lincoln (AR)
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)
- Zell Miller (GA)
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid (NV)
- Rick Santorum (PA)
- Paul Sarbanes (MD)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- Paul Wellstone (MN)
Nay 63
- A. Allard (CO)
- George Allen (VA)
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Evan Bayh (IN)
- Joe Biden, Jr. (DE)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- John Breaux (LA)
- Sam Brownback (KS)
- James Bunning (KY)
- Conrad Burns (MT)
- Robert Byrd (WV)
- Jean Carnahan (MO)
- Tom Carper
- Lincoln Chafee (RI)
- William Cochran (MS)
- Susan Collins
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Larry Craig (ID)
- Mike Crapo
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- John Edwards (NC)
- John Ensign (NV)
- Michael Enzi (WY)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Peter Fitzgerald (IL)
- William Frist (TN)
- Bob Graham (FL)
- Phil Gramm (TX)
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Chuck Hagel (NE)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Jesse Helms (NC)
- Timothy Hutchinson (AR)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Chester Lott (MS)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank Murkowski (AK)
- Bill Nelson (FL)
- Ben Nelson (NE)
- Donald Nickles (OK)
- Pat Roberts (KS)
- Jay Rockefeller, IV (WV)
- Chuck Schumer
- Jeff Sessions, III (AL)
- Richard Shelby (AL)
- Robert Smith (NH)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Deborah Stabenow (MI)
- Craig Thomas (WY)
- Fred Thompson (TN)
- James Thurmond (SC)
- Robert Torricelli (NJ)
- George Voinovich (OH)
- John Warner (VA)
- Ron Wyden
Not Voting 6
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Ben Campbell (CO)
- Pete Domenici (NM)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Gordon Smith (OR)
- Ted Stevens (AK)
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).