Roll Call Vote #58 · 110th Congress · Session 2 · Mar 13, 2008, 3:54 PM (ET)
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4222 to S.Con.Res. 70 (No short title on file)
Amendment S.Amdt. 4222 (To take $670,000 used by the EEOC in bringing actions against employers that require their employees to speak English, and instead use the money to teach English to adults through the Department of Education's English Literacy/Civics Education State Grant program.)
How the Parties Voted
7 Yea / 30 Nay
1 not voting or present
Majority position: Nay
36 Yea / 1 Nay
1 not voting or present
Majority position: Yea
0 Yea / 1 Nay
Majority position: Nay
Crossed Party Lines
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Max Baucus (Democrat–MT) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Evan Bayh (Democrat–IN) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Mary Landrieu (Democrat–LA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Blanche Lincoln (Democrat–AR) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Mel Martinez (Republican–FL) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Ben Nelson (Democrat–NE) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Mark Pryor (Democrat–AR) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Arlen Specter (Democrat–PA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 54
- Lamar Alexander (TN)
- A. Allard (CO)
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Evan Bayh (IN)
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- Sam Brownback (KS)
- James Bunning (KY)
- Richard Burr (NC)
- Saxby Chambliss (GA)
- Thomas Coburn (OK)
- William Cochran (MS)
- Norm Coleman (MN)
- Susan Collins
- Bob Corker (TN)
- 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
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Chuck Hagel (NE)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- Johnny Isakson (GA)
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Blanche Lincoln (AR)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson (NE)
- Mark Pryor (AR)
- Pat Roberts (KS)
- Jeff Sessions, III (AL)
- Richard Shelby (AL)
- Gordon Smith (OR)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- Ted Stevens (AK)
- John Sununu (NH)
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- David Vitter (LA)
- George Voinovich (OH)
- John Warner (VA)
- Roger Wicker
Nay 44
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Joe Biden, Jr. (DE)
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin Cardin (MD)
- Tom Carper
- Bob Casey
- Hillary Clinton (NY)
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- Dick Durbin
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- Ted Kennedy (MA)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Mel Martinez (FL)
- Claire McCaskill (MO)
- Robert Menendez (NJ)
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson (FL)
- Barack Obama (IL)
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid (NV)
- Jay Rockefeller, IV (WV)
- Kenneth Salazar (CO)
- Bernie Sanders
- Chuck Schumer
- Deborah Stabenow (MI)
- Jim Webb (VA)
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not Voting 2
- Robert Byrd (WV)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).