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Roll Call Vote #68 · 110th Congress · Session 1 · Mar 9, 2007, 9:30 AM (ET)

On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 312 to S.Amdt. 275 to S. 4 (Improving America's Security Act of 2007)

Amendment S.Amdt. 312 (To prohibit the recruitment of persons to participate in terrorism, to clarify that the revocation of an alien's visa or other documentation is not subject to judicial review, to strengthen the Federal Government's ability to detain dangerous criminal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and child molesters, until they can be removed from the United States, to prohibit the rewarding of suicide bombings and allow adequate punishments for terrorists murders, kidnappings, and sexual assaults, and for other purposes.)

Cloture Motion Rejected (46-49, 3/5 majority required)
46 Yea
49 Nay
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How the Parties Voted

Republican 40 senators

36 Yea / 1 Nay

3 not voting or present

Majority position: Yea

Democrat 38 senators

2 Yea / 34 Nay

2 not voting or present

Majority position: Nay

Independent Democrat 1 senator

0 Yea / 1 Nay

Majority position: Nay

Crossed Party Lines

Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted

Yea 46

Nay 49

Not Voting 5

Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).