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No. 3704; To provide, with an offset, $20,000,000 for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Medical Facilities. Voted on 05/04/2006 Voted :: Yea H.R. 4939 As Amended; Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 Voted on 05/04/2006 Voted :: Nay Confirmation Brian M. Cogan, of New York, to be U.S. District Judge Voted on 05/04/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Thomas M. Golden, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge Voted on 05/04/2006 Voted :: Yea Kennedy Amdt. No. 3688, As Modified; To provide funding to compensate individuals harmed by pandemic influenza vaccine. Voted on 05/03/2006 Voted :: Nay McCain Amdt. No. 3616; To strike a provision that provides $74.5 million to states based on their production of certain types of crops, livestock and or diary products, which was not included in the Administration's emergency supplemental request. Voted on 05/03/2006 Voted :: Yea Inouye Amdt. No. 3673; To increase funds made available for assessments of critical reservoirs and dams in the State of Hawaii. Voted on 05/03/2006 Voted :: Nay Inouye Amdt. No. 3601; To provide assistance relating to assessments and monitoring of waters in the State of Hawaii. Voted on 05/03/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 4939; Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 Voted on 05/02/2006 Voted :: Yea McCain Amdt. No. 3617; To strike a provision providing $6 million to sugarcane growers in Hawaii, which was not included in the Administration's emergency supplemental request. Voted on 05/02/2006 Voted :: Yea Coburn Amdt. No. 3641 "Div IV"; To perfect the bill. Voted on 05/02/2006 Voted :: Yea Obama Amdt. No. 3810; To provide that none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for hurricane relief and recovery contracts exceeding $500,000 that are awarded using procedures other than competitive procedures. Voted on 05/02/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Michael Ryan Barrett, of Ohio, to be U.S. District Judge Voted on 05/01/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 3641 "Div. II"; To perfect the bill. Voted on 04/27/2006 Voted :: Nay Byrd Amdt. No. 3709; To express the sense of the Senate on requests for funds for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for fiscal years after fiscal year 2007. Voted on 04/27/2006 Voted :: Not Voting Gregg Amdt. No. 3594, as Modified; To provide, with an offset, emergency funding for border security efforts. Voted on 04/26/2006 Voted :: Yea Reid Amdt. No. 3604; To provide, with an offset, emergency funding for border security efforts. Voted on 04/26/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Table Thomas Amdt. No. 3515; To return the bill to the President's proposal. Voted on 04/26/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Table Ensign Motion to Recommit H.R.4939 to the Committee on Appropriations; Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 Voted on 04/26/2006 Voted :: Nay Akaka Amdt. No. 3642 as Amended; To provide an additional $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans. Voted on 04/26/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Table Coburn Amdt No. 3641 "Div. I"; To perfect the bill. Voted on 04/26/2006 Voted :: Nay Confirmation Gray Hampton Miller, of Texas, to be United States District Judge Voted on 04/25/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Commit S. 2454 to the Committee on the Judiciary; Securing America's Borders Act Voted on 04/07/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 2454; Securing America's Borders Act Voted on 04/07/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Dorrance Smith, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense Voted on 04/07/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on Peter Cyril Wyche Flory, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense Voted on 04/07/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Specter Amdt. No. 3192; To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for comprehensive reform and to provide conditional nonimmigrant authorization for employment to undocumented aliens, and for other purposes. Voted on 04/06/2006 Voted :: Nay Confirmation Michael A. Chagares, of New Jersey, to be U.S. Circuit Judge Voted on 04/04/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Table Kyl Amdt. No. 3206; To make certain aliens ineligible for conditional nonimmigrant work authorization and status. Voted on 04/04/2006 Voted :: Nay Bingaman Amdt. No. 3210, as modified; To provide financial aid to local law enforcement officials along the Nation's borders, and for other purposes. Voted on 04/03/2006 Voted :: Nay Alexander Amdt. No. 3193, as modified; To prescribe the binding oath or affirmation of renunciation and allegiance required to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, to encourage and support the efforts of prospective citizens of the United States to become citizens, and for other purposes. Voted on 04/03/2006 Voted :: Yea First Amdt. No. 3191; To require the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to collect statistics, and prepare reports describing the statistics, relating to deaths occurring at the border between the United States and Mexico. Voted on 03/30/2006 Voted :: Yea Feingold Amdt. No. 2962; To clarify the application of the gift rule to lobbyists. Voted on 03/29/2006 Voted :: Yea Ensign Amdt. No. 2980; To include Federal entities in the definition of earmarks. Voted on 03/29/2006 Voted :: Nay As Amended; Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 Voted on 03/29/2006 Voted :: Nay Collins Amdt. No. 3176; To establish the Senate Office of Public Integrity. Voted on 03/28/2006 Voted :: Nay Wyden Amdt. No. 2944; To establish as a standing order of the Senate a requirement that a Senator publicly disclose a notice of intent to object to proceeding to any measure or matter. Voted on 03/28/2006 Voted :: Nay Upon Reconsideration, Motion to Invoke Cloture on < href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02349:" target="_blank">S.2349; Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 Voted on 03/28/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Dennis R. Spurgeon of Florida To Be An Assistant Secretary of Energy Voted on 03/27/2006 Voted :: Yea Baucus Amendment No. 3131; To require a study of debt held by foreigners. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay H.J.Res.47; Increased Public Debt resolution Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Conrad Amdt No. 3133; To increase funding to combat avian flu, increase local preparedness, and create a Manhattan Project-like effort to develop a vaccine to inoculate the U.S. Population against a pandemic by $5 billion in FY 2007 paid for by requiring tax withholding on government payments to contractors like Halliburton. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Burr Amdt No. 3114; To provide for the establishment of a reserve fund concerning pandemic influenza preparedness planning. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Reed Amdt. No. 3074; To increase funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program by $3,318,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, increasing the funds available to carry out that program to the fully authorized level of $5,100,000,000, to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Specter Amdt No. 3048; To increase the advance appropriations allowance in order to fund health, education and training, and low-income programs. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Lieberman Amdt No. 3034; To protect the American people from terrorist attacks by providing $8 billion in additional funds for homeland security government-wide, by restoring cuts to vital first responder programs in the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, by providing an additional $1.2 billion for first responders, $1.7 billion for the Coast Guard and port security, $150 million for chemical security, $1 billion for rail and transit security, $456 million for FEMA, $1 billion for health preparedness programs, and $752 million for aviation security. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Sarbanes Amdt No. 3103; To restore funding for the civil works programs of the Corps of Engineers, the Federal Water Pollution Control State Revolving Fund, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal conservation programs, and other natural resource needs, through an offset achieved by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Dorgan Amdt No. 3102; To increase funding by $1 billion for various tribal programs and provide necessary additional funding based on recommendations from Indian country, by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Cornyn Amdt No. 3100; To provide for reconciliation instructions to the Committee on Finance to reduce mandatory spending. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Stabenow Amdt No. 3141; To provide an assured stream of funding for veteran's health care that will take into account the annual changes in the veteran's population and inflation to be paid for by restoring the pre-2001 top rate for income over $1 million, closing corporate tax loopholes and delaying tax cuts for the wealthy. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Akaka Amdt No. 3071; To increase funding for Title I grants and reduce debt by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Inhofe Amdt No. 3093; To provide for discretionary spending control. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Lincoln Amdt No. 3106; To restore the discretionary budget for the Department of Agriculture with an offset achieved by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Kerry Amdt No. 3143; To prevent the imposition of excessive TRICARE fees and co-pays on military retirees. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay DeMint Amdt. No. 3087 As Modified; To establish a reserve fund for Social Security reform. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Boxer Amdt No. 3105; No Statement of Purpose on File. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Bingaman Amdt No. 3121; To strike the direct spending limitation. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Stabenow Amdt No. 3164; To establish a reserve fund to allow for deficit-neutral legislation that would provide seniors with a prescription drug benefit option that is affordable, user-friendly, and administered directly by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Nay Domenici Amdt No. 3128; To provide funding for implementing the Energy Policy Act of 2005 from ANWR. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Ensign Amdt No. 3166; To deny funds in FY2007 for the United Nations Human Rights Council, which the United States just voted against because countries found complicit in sustained human rights abuses are eligible for Council membership. Savings redirected to border security. Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea S.Con.Res. 83; Restore Pay-As-You Go Tax Cuts resolution Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Jack Zouhary, of Ohio, To Be U.S. District Judge Voted on 03/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Murray Amdt. No. 3063; To restore funding for the Community Development Block Grant Program to the fiscal 2004 level by closing tax loopholes previously slated for elimination in Senate-passed legislation. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay Santorum Amdt. No. 3050; To increase funding for the Community Develeopment Block Grant Program. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Yea Stabenow Amdt. No. 3056; To provide $5 billion for our emergency responders so that they can field effective and reliable interoperable communications equipment to respond to natural disasters, terrorist attacks and the public safety needs of America's communities and fully offset this by closing tax loopholes and collecting more from the tax gap. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay McConnell Amdt. No. 3061; To provide funding for maritime security, including the Container Security Initiative, improved data for targeted cargo searches, and full background checks and security threat assessments of personnel at our nation's seaports. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Yea Menendez Amdt. No. 3054; To provide an additional $965 million to make our ports more secure by increasing port security grants, increasing inspections, improving existing programs, and increasing research and development, and to fully offset this additional funding by closing tax loopholes. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay Grassley Amdt. No. 3073; To establish a reserve fund to allow for deficit-neutral legislation that would provide for an extension of the Medicare part D enrollment period. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Yea Nelson Amdt. No. 3009; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect medicare beneficiaries who enroll in the prescription drug benefit during 2006. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay Snowe Amdt. No. 3004; To ensure that any savings associated with legislation that authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use the collective purchasing power of 40,000,000 Medicare beneficiaries to negotiate the best possible prices for prescription drugs provided through part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act in fallback plans, by private drug plans (if asked) and in other circumstances, but not permitting a uniform formulary or price setting, is reserved for deficit reduction of to improve the Medicare drug benefit. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay Byrd Amdt. No. 3086; To preserve a national intercity passenger rail system by providing adequate funding of $1.45 billion for Amtrak in Fiscal Year 2007 and to fully offset this additional funding by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay Santorum Amdt. No. 3015; To provide an additional $550,000,000 for Amtrak for fiscal year 2007. Voted on 03/15/2006 Voted :: Nay Conrad Amdt. No. 3013; To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement through 2011. Voted on 03/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Kennedy Amdt. No. 3028; To support college access and job training by: (1) restoring program cuts slated for vocational education, TRIO, GEAR UP, Perkins Loans, and other student aid programs; (2) increasing investment in student aid programs, including increasing the maximum Pell Grant to $4,500; and (3) restoring cuts slated for job training programs; paid for by closing $6.3 billion in corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Burns Amdt. No. 2999; To provide increased funding for veterans health programs, and to negate the need for enrollment fees and increase in pharmacy co-payments. Voted on 03/14/2006 Voted :: Yea Akaka Amdt. No. 3007; To increase Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes. Voted on 03/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Bingaman Amdt. No. 3039; To make energy more affordable and sustainable, to increase our national security through foreign oil replacement with biofuels and alternative fuels and advanced/hybrid vehicle use, to accelerate production and market penetration of clean and renewable energy technologies and generation, and to more fully utilize energy efficiency and conservation technologies and practices. Voted on 03/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Confirmation Leo Maury Gordon, of New Jersey, to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade Voted on 03/13/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 2349; Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 Voted on 03/09/2006 Voted :: Yea Reid Amdt. No. 2932; To provide additional transparency in the legislative process. Voted on 03/08/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 2320; A bill to make available funds included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program for fiscal year 2006, and for other purposes. Voted on 03/07/2006 Voted :: Nay Snowe Amdt. No. 2913; To improve the distribution of funds to States under there Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Voted on 03/07/2006 Voted :: Nay Confirmation Timothy C. Batten, Sr., of Georgia, to be U.S. District Judge Voted on 03/06/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Thomas E. Johnston, of West Virginia, to be U.S. District Judge Voted on 03/06/2006 Voted :: Yea H.R. 3199 Conference Report; USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 Voted on 03/02/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Waive CBA Re: S. 2320; A bill to make available funds included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program for fiscal year 2006, and for other purposes. Voted on 03/02/2006 Voted :: Nay First Amdt. No. 2895 As Amended; To establish the enactment date of the Act. Voted on 03/01/2006 Voted :: Yea S. 2271, As Amended; USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 Voted on 03/01/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Proceed to Consider the Motion to Reconsider the Vote by which the Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3199 was Not Agreed To (RCV 358).; USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 Voted on 03/01/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Reconsider the Vote by Which Cloture was Not Invoked on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3199 (RCV 358).; USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 Voted on 03/01/2006 Voted :: Yea Upon Reconsideration - Cloture on The Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3199; USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 Voted on 03/01/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 2271; USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 Voted on 02/28/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 2271; USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 Voted on 02/16/2006 Voted :: Yea Grassley Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4297 Re: AMT/Capital Gains; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/14/2006 Voted :: Yea Kennedy Motion to Instruct Conference on H.R. 4297 Re: Capital Gains; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Reed Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4297 Re: Military; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Hutchison Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4297 Re: States Sales Taxes; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/14/2006 Voted :: Yea Lautenberg Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4297 Re: National Debt; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Waive CBA Re: S. 852; Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 Voted on 02/14/2006 Voted :: Nay Grassley Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4297 Re: Veterans; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/13/2006 Voted :: Yea Dodd Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 4297 Re: Veterans; Tax Relief Act of 2005 Voted on 02/13/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Table Cornyn Amdt. No. 2748; To provide a new system by which to resolve claims for bodily injury caused by asbestos exposure, and for other purposes. Voted on 02/09/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 852; Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 Voted on 02/07/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Waive CBA Conrad Amdt. No. 2729; To provide revenue provisions. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Nay Grassley Amdt. No. 2731; To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Medicare part D prescription drug program. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Waive CBA Re: Nelson (FL) Amdt. No. 2730; To provide for necessary beneficiary protections in order to ensure access to coverage under the Medicare part D prescription drug program. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Waive CBA Clinton Amdt. No. 2716; To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Waive CBA Dodd Amdt. No. 2735; To support the health needs of our veterans and military personnel and reduce the deficit by making tax rates fairer for all Americans. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Nay Motion to Waive CBA Reed Amdt. No. 2737; To strengthen America's military, to repeal the extension of tax rates for capital gains and dividends, to reduce the deficit, and for other purposes. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Nay Menendez Amdt. No. 2705; To express the sense of the Senate that protecting middle-class families from the alternative minimum tax should be a higher priority for Congress in 2006 than extending a tax cut that does not expire until the end of 2008. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Nay H.R. 4297 As Amended; Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005 Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Yea H.R. 4659; A bill to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act. Voted on 02/02/2006 Voted :: Yea Confirmation Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of New Jersey, to be an Associate Justice Voted on 01/31/2006 Voted :: Yea Motion to Invoke Cloture On The Nomination of Samuel A. 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