Roll Call Vote #277 · 111th Congress · Session 1 · Sep 16, 2009, 11:38 AM (ET)
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 2371 to H.R. 3288 (Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010)
Amendment S.Amdt. 2371 (To remove an unnecessary and burdensome mandate on the States, by allowing them to opt out of a provision that requires States to spend 10 percent of their surface transportation funds on enhancement projects such as road-kill reduction and highway beautification.)
Amendment Rejected (39-59)
39 Yea
59 Nay
How the Parties Voted
Democrat 40 senators
4 Yea / 35 Nay
1 not voting or present
Majority position: Nay
Republican 29 senators
24 Yea / 5 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Independent Democrat 1 senator
1 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Crossed Party Lines
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Evan Bayh (Democrat–IN) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Kit Bond (Republican–MO) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
William Cochran (Republican–MS) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Russell Feingold (Democrat–WI) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Claire McCaskill (Democrat–MO) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Richard Shelby (Republican–AL) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Olympia Snowe (Republican–ME) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
George Voinovich (Republican–OH) voted Nay while most of their caucus voted Yea -
Jim Webb (Democrat–VA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 39
- Lamar Alexander (TN)
- John Barrasso
- Evan Bayh (IN)
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Sam Brownback (KS)
- James Bunning (KY)
- Richard Burr (NC)
- Saxby Chambliss (GA)
- Thomas Coburn (OK)
- Bob Corker (TN)
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- James DeMint (SC)
- John Ensign (NV)
- Michael Enzi (WY)
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- Johnny Isakson (GA)
- Mike Johanns (NE)
- Amy Klobuchar
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- George LeMieux (FL)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
- Claire McCaskill (MO)
- Mitch McConnell
- Jim Risch
- Pat Roberts (KS)
- Jeff Sessions, III (AL)
- John Thune
- David Vitter (LA)
- Jim Webb (VA)
- Roger Wicker
Nay 59
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Mark Begich (AK)
- Michael Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- Sherrod Brown
- Roland Burris (IL)
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin Cardin (MD)
- Tom Carper
- Bob Casey
- William Cochran (MS)
- Susan Collins
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- Dick Durbin
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Al Franken (MN)
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Kay Hagan (NC)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- Ted Kaufman (DE)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Blanche Lincoln (AR)
- Robert Menendez (NJ)
- Jeff Merkley
- 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)
- Bernie Sanders
- Chuck Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard Shelby (AL)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- Deborah Stabenow (MI)
- Jon Tester
- Mark Udall (CO)
- Tom Udall (NM)
- George Voinovich (OH)
- Mark Warner
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not Voting 1
- Robert Byrd (WV)
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).