Roll Call Vote #198 · 110th Congress · Session 2 · Sep 10, 2008, 6:08 PM (ET)
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 5280 to S. 3001 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009)
Amendment S.Amdt. 5280 (To authorize, with an offset, an additional $100,000,000 for Procurement, Defense-wide, and an additional $171,000,000 for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-wide, for near-term missile defense programs and activities.)
Amendment Rejected (39-57)
39 Yea
57 Nay
How the Parties Voted
Democrat 38 senators
3 Yea / 32 Nay
3 not voting or present
Majority position: Nay
Republican 38 senators
28 Yea / 9 Nay
1 not voting or present
Majority position: Yea
Independent Democrat 1 senator
0 Yea / 1 Nay
Majority position: Nay
Crossed Party Lines
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Evan Bayh (Democrat–IN) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Bob Bennett (Republican–UT) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Bob Corker (Republican–TN) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Judd Gregg (Republican–NH) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Mary Landrieu (Democrat–LA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Jeff Sessions, III (Republican–AL) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Gordon Smith (Republican–OR) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Olympia Snowe (Republican–ME) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Arlen Specter (Democrat–PA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Ted Stevens (Republican–AK) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
John Sununu (Republican–NH) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
John Warner (Republican–VA) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 39
- Lamar Alexander (TN)
- A. Allard (CO)
- John Barrasso
- Evan Bayh (IN)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- Sam Brownback (KS)
- James Bunning (KY)
- Richard Burr (NC)
- Saxby Chambliss (GA)
- Thomas Coburn (OK)
- William Cochran (MS)
- Norm Coleman (MN)
- John Cornyn
- Larry Craig (ID)
- Mike Crapo
- James DeMint (SC)
- Elizabeth Dole (NC)
- Pete Domenici (NM)
- John Ensign (NV)
- Michael Enzi (WY)
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Chuck Hagel (NE)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- Johnny Isakson (GA)
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- Mel Martinez (FL)
- Mitch McConnell
- Pat Roberts (KS)
- Richard Shelby (AL)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- John Thune
- David Vitter (LA)
- George Voinovich (OH)
- Roger Wicker
Nay 57
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- Sherrod Brown
- Robert Byrd (WV)
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin Cardin (MD)
- Tom Carper
- Bob Casey
- Hillary Clinton (NY)
- Susan Collins
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Bob Corker (TN)
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- Dick Durbin
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Blanche Lincoln (AR)
- Claire McCaskill (MO)
- Robert Menendez (NJ)
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson (FL)
- Ben Nelson (NE)
- Mark Pryor (AR)
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid (NV)
- Jay Rockefeller, IV (WV)
- Kenneth Salazar (CO)
- Bernie Sanders
- Chuck Schumer
- Jeff Sessions, III (AL)
- Gordon Smith (OR)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Deborah Stabenow (MI)
- Ted Stevens (AK)
- John Sununu (NH)
- Jon Tester
- John Warner (VA)
- Jim Webb (VA)
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not Voting 4
- Joe Biden, Jr. (DE)
- Ted Kennedy (MA)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
- Barack Obama (IL)
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).