US Senate Votes in 2004

January

  1. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 1 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2673; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004
  2. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 2 • Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Conference Report To Accompany H. R. 2673; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004
  3. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 3 • Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 4 • Motion To Table Kyl Amdt. No. 2234; To limit the liability of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with respect to a plan for which a reduced deficit contribution is elected.
  5. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 5 • To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, and for other purposes.
  6. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 6 • Confirmation of Gary L. Sharpe, of New York, To Be U.S. District Judge

February

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 7 • Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Motion To Proceed To Consider S. 1072; Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2004
  2. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 8 • Confirmation Mark R. Filip, of Illinois, To Be U. S. District Judge
  3. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 9 • Motion To Table Warner Amdt. No 2286, as Modified; To provide a highway safety improvement program that includes incentives to States to enact primary safety belt laws.
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 10 • Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Inhofe Amdt. No. 2285 To S.1072; To provide a complete substitute.
  5. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 11 • Hutchinson Amdt. No. 2388; To provide for the distribution of funds under the infrastructure performance and maintenance program.
  6. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 12 • Motion To Waive C.B.A. Re: Inhofe Amdt No 2285 and S. 1072; To provide a complete substitute.
  7. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 13 • Kyl Amdt. No. 2473; To provide for a substitute to title V.
  8. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 14 • A bill to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
  9. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 15 • A bill to improve women's health access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services.
  10. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 16 • Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Motion To Proceed To S. 1805 ; Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
  11. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 17 • Boxer Amdt. No. 2620 As Amended; To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the provision of a child safety device in connection with the transfer of a handgun and to provide safety standards for child safety devices.
  12. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 18 • Motion To Waive CBA Cantwell Amdt. No. 2617; To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, and for other purposes.
  13. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 19 • Frist Amdt. No. 2628; To exempt any lawsuit involving a shooting victim of John Allen Muhammad or John Lee Malvo from the definition of qualified civil liability action that meets certain requirements.
  14. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 20 • Mikulski Amdt. No. 2627; To exempt lawsuits involving a shooting victim of John Allen Muhammad or Lee Boyd Malvo from the definition of qualified civil liability action.
  15. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 21 • Frist Amdt. No. 2630; To protect the rights of law enforcement officers who are victimized by crime to secure compensation from those who participate in the arming of criminals.
  16. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 22 • Corzine Amdt. 2629; To protect the rights of law enforcement officers who are victimized by crime to secure compensation from those who participate in the arming of criminals.

March

  1. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 23 • Bingaman amdt. No. 2635; To modify the definition of reasonably foreseeable.
  2. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 24 • Feinstein Amdt. No. 2637; To provide for a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban.
  3. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 25 • McCain Amdt. No. 2636; To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at events that provide a venue for the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange of firearms, and for other purposes.
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 26 • Campbell Amdt. No. 2623; To amend title 18, United States Code, to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns.
  5. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 27 • Frist Amdt. No. 2625; To regulate the sale and possession of armor piercing ammunition, and for other purposes.
  6. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 28 • Kennedy Amdt. 2619; To expand the definition of armor piercing ammunition and to require the Attorney General to promulgate standards for the uniform testing of projectiles against body armor.
  7. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 29 • Motion to table Levin Amdt. No. 2631; To exempt any civil action against a person from the provisions of the bill if the gross negligence or reckless conduct of the person proximately caused death or injury.
  8. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 30 • A bill to prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages resulting from the misuse of their products by others.
  9. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 31 • Hatch Amdt. No. 2647: as amended; To extend and modify the research credit.
  10. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 32 • Dodd Amdt. No. 2660, as modified and amended; To protect United States workers from competition of foreign workforces for performance of Federal and State contracts.
  11. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 33 • Conrad Amdt. No. 2704; To establish a 60-vote point of order against the consideration of any direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit in any fiscal year.
  12. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 34 • Daschle Amdt. No. 2710; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $2.7 billion and lower the national debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year.
  13. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 35 • Murray Amdt. No. 2719; To fully fund the No Child Left Behind Act for fiscal year 2005 and lower the national debt by closing tax loopholes.
  14. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 36 • Byrd Amdt. No. 2735; To provide for consideration of tax cuts outside of reconciliation.
  15. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 37 • Warner Amdt. No. 2742; To increase the amounts provided for national defense for fiscal year 2005 for new budget activity and for outlays.
  16. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 38 • Feingold Amdt. No. 2748; To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement.
  17. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 39 • Baucus Amdt. No. 2751; To strike the outlay reconciliation instruction to the Committee on Finance.
  18. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 40 • Nelson Amdt. No. 2745; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes.
  19. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 41 • Boxer Amdt. No. 2783; Relative to job creation and taxes.
  20. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 42 • Sarbanes Amdt. No. 2789; To fully fund the FIRE and SAFER Acts and reduce tax breaks for certain individuals.
  21. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 43 • A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the deadly terrorist attacks against the people of Spain that occurred on March 11, 2004.
  22. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 44 • Dorgan Amdt. No. 2793; To increase funding for COPS, Byre grants, and Local Law Enforcement Block Grants, and reduce tax breaks for certain individuals.
  23. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 45 • Lautenberg Amdt.No. 2703; To reduce debt and require the industries responsible for producing products that contaminate toxic waste sites and industries who are exempt from liability for such contamination, to help pay for the cleanup by reinstating the S
  24. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 46 • Harkin Amdt. No. 2799; To provide for increased resources for medical research, disease control, wellness, tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts including substance abuse and mental health services, establishing a fund for this purpose, offset
  25. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 47 • Lincoln Amdt. No. 2803; To provide $60 billion over five years for greater health security for working Americans and their families through a combination of public and private efforts to expand quality, affordable health insurance coverage and cut health
  26. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 48 • Byrd Amdt. No. 2804; To provide responsible restraints on discretionary funding while providing adequate resources for education, veterans, homeland security, and other critical domestic priorities and fully offsetting the cost by closing corporate tax lo
  27. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 49 • Motion To Waive CBA Bingaman Amdt. No. 2765; To ensure that legislation is not enacted that increases the number of taxpayers affected by the alternative minimum tax.
  28. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 50 • Lieberman Amdt. No. 2807; To restore cuts and increase funding for homeland security programs and reduce the debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year.
  29. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 51 • Kennedy Amdt. No. 2725; To create a reserve fund to finance an increase in the maximum Pell Grant that keeps pace with the rate of increase in public college tuition, extend Pell Grants to 500,000 new recipients, and close certain tax loopholes.
  30. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 52 • Daschle Amdt. No.2774; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Indian Health Service Clinical Services by $3.44 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating abusive tax loopholes or reducing tax breaks for individuals with incomes in ex
  31. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 53 • Dodd Amdt. No. 2762; To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program by $1 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating tax loopholes.
  32. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 54 • Levin Amdt. No. 2817; To lower crude oil prices resulting from the cancellation of planned future deliveries of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and using the funding made available to provide $1.7 billion in funding for homeland security grants for
  33. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 55 • Motion To Waive McConnell Amdt. No. 2840; To prohibit future income tax hikes on upper incomes that fail to exempt small businesses that file individual income tax returns as partnerships, sole proprietors, or subchapter S corporations.
  34. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 56 • Specter Amdt. No. 2741 as modified; Increase discretionary health funding by $2,000,000,000.
  35. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 57 • Lautenberg Amdt. 2797; To strike the provision for raising the debt limit.
  36. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 58 • An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.
  37. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 59 • Confirmation Louis Guirola to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi
  38. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 60 • Motion To Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Recommit S. 1637 to the Committee on Finance with Instructions; Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act
  39. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 61 • Feinstein Amdt. No. 2858; In the nature of a substitute.
  40. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 62 • Motion To Waive CBA RE: Murray AMDT. No. 2859; To provide for domestic violence prevention.
  41. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 63 • To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes.
  42. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 64 • Snowe Amdt. No. 2937; To provide additional funding for child care.

April

  1. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 65 • Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Committee Substitute To H. R. 4; PRIDE Act
  2. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 66 • A bill to improve women's access to health care services, and the access of all individuals to emergency and trauma care services, by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of such services.
  3. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 67 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Recommit S. 1637 to the Committee on Finance, with Instructions.; Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 68 • To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, and for other purposes.
  5. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 69 • A bill to create a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for bodily injury caused by asbestos exposure, and for other purposes.
  6. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 70 • A bill to protect crime victims' rights.
  7. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 71 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 150 ; Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act
  8. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 72 • Motion to Table Hutchison Amdt. No. 3049; To change the definition of Internet access service.
  9. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 73 • Motion To Invoke Cloutre on the Daschle Amdt. No. 3050; To eliminate methyl tertiary butyl ether from the United States fuel supply, to increase production and use of renewable fuel, and to increase the Nation's energy independence.
  10. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 74 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Domenici Amdt. No. 3051; To enhance energy conservation and research and development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people.
  11. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 75 • Motion To Invoke Cloture on the McCain Amdt. No. 3048; To extend the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act for 4 years, and for other purposes.
  12. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 76 • Motion To Table Feinstein Amdt. No. 3052; To extend the grandfather clauses for the term of the moratorium extension.
  13. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 77 • A bill to make permanent the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act.

May

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 78 • Gregg Amdt. No. 3111; To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.
  2. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 79 • Harkin Amdt. No. 3107; To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.
  3. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 80 • Motion To Waive CBA Re: Wyden Amdt. No. 3109 As Modified; To provide trade adjustment assistance for service workers, and for other purposes.
  4. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 81 • Breaux Amdt. No. 3117; To limit the amount of deferred foreign income that can be repatriated at a lower rate.
  5. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 82 • Graham (FL) Amdt. No. 3112; To strike the deduction relating to income attributable to United States production activities and the international tax provisions and allow a credit for manufacturing wages, and for other purposes.
  6. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 83 • Motion To Table Dorgan Amdt. No. 3110; To provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property, and for other purposes.
  7. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 84 • Allard Amdt. No. 3118; To provide for a brownfields demonstration program for qualified green building and sustainable design projects, and for other purposes.
  8. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 85 • Confirmation John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Ambassador of the United States to Iraq
  9. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 86 • A resolution condemning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, urging a full and complete investigation to ensure justice is served, and expressing support for all Americans serving nobly in Iraq.
  10. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 87 • A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.
  11. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 88 • Motion to Waive CBA Re: Cantwell Amdt. No. 3114; To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, and for other purposes.
  12. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 89 • McCain Amdt. No. 3129; To strike provisions relating to energy tax incentives.
  13. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 90 • Hollings Amdt. No. 3134; To strike the international tax provisions that are unrelated to the FSC/ETI repeal and eliminate the phase-in of the deduction for qualified production activities income.
  14. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 91 • A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.
  15. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 92 • Gregg Amdt. No. 3145; To authorize appropriations for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
  16. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 93 • Motion to Waive CBA Re: Harkin Amdt. No. 3144; to amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to reach full Federal funding of such part in 6 years, and for other purposes.
  17. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 94 • To reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and for other purposes.
  18. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 95 • Hutchison Amdt. No. 3152; To authorize medical and dental care for cadets and midshipmen, and to authorize disability benefits for cadets and midshipmen of the service academies,
  19. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 96 • To provide for the establishment of separate campaign medals to be awarded to members of the uniformed services who participate in Operation Enduring Freedom and to members of the uniformed services who participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
  20. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 97 • Confirmation on the Nomination of Marcia Cooke, of Florida to be U.S. District Judge
  21. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 98 • Lott Amdt. No. 3158; To provide that the 2005 base closure round shall apply solely to military installations located outside the United States and to provide for expedited consideration by Congress of a proposal for a base closure round in 2007 on milita
  22. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 99 • A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility, infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of countermeasures.
  23. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 100 • Kyl Amdt. No. 3191 As Modified; To express the sense of the Senate regarding legislation to impose an excise tax on tobacco lawyer's fees that exceed $20,000 per hour in order to increase funding for equipment for the United States Armed Forces.
  24. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 101 • Lautenberg Amdt. No. 3151 As Modified; To clarify the application of Presidential action under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
  25. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 102 • Confirmation Raymond W. Gruender of Missouri to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit
  26. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 103 • Confirmation Franklin S. Van Antwerpen of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Circuit Judge

June

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 104 • Confirmation F. Dennis Saylor IV, of Massachusetts, to be U.S. District Judge
  2. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 105 • Graham (SC) Amdt. No. 3258; To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand certain authorities to provide health care benefits for Reserves and their families, and for other purposes.
  3. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 106 • Warner Amdt. No. 3260, as Modified; To authorize appropriations for a contingent emergency reserve fund for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  4. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 107 • Cantwell Amdt. No. 3261; To ensure adequate funding for, and the continuation of activities related to, the treatment by the Department of Energy of high level radioactive waste.
  5. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 108 • Confirmation Sandra L. Townes, of New York, to be U.S. District Judge
  6. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 109 • Confirmation Kenneth M. Karas, of New York, to be U.S. District Judge
  7. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 110 • Confirmation Judith C. Herrera, of New Mexico, to be U.S. District Judge
  8. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 111 • A resolution relative to the death of Ronald Wilson Reagan, a former President of the United States.
  9. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 112 • Dodd Amdt. No. 3312, as Modified.; To require the Secretary of Defense to provide reimbursement for certain protective, safety, or health equipment purchased by or on behalf of members of the Armed Forces for deployment in connection wih Operation Noble E
  10. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 113 • Kennedy Amdt. No. 3263; To prohibit the use of funds for the support of new nuclear weapons development under the Stockpile Services Advanced Concepts Initiative or for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP).
  11. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 114 • Smith Amdt. No. 3183; To provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes.
  12. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 115 • Confirmation Virginia E. Hopkins, of Alabama, to be U.S. District Judge
  13. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 116 • Confirmation Ricardo S. Martinez, of Washington, To Be U.S. District Judge
  14. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 117 • Confirmation Gene E. K. Pratter, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge
  15. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 118 • Motion to Table Dodd Amdt. No. 3313 As Modified Further; To prohibit the use of contractors for certain Department of Defense activities and to establish limitations on the transfer of custody of prisoners of the Department of Defense.
  16. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 119 • Warner Amdt. No. 3452 As Modified; To extend jurisdiction and scope for current fraud offenses.
  17. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 120 • Leahy Amdt. No. 3292; To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit profiteering and fraud relating to military action, relief, and reconstruction.
  18. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 121 • Confirmation William S. Duffey, Jr., of Georgia to be U.S. District Judge
  19. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 122 • Confirmation Lawrence F. Stengel, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge
  20. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 123 • Confirmation Paul S. Diamond, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. District Judge
  21. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 124 • Boxer Amdt. No. 3368; To allow deployment of the ground-based midcourse defense element of the national ballistic missile defense system only after the mission-related capabilities of the system have been confirmed by operationally realistic testing.
  22. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 125 • Warner Amdt. No. 3453; To require the Secretary of Defense to prescribe and apply criteria for operationally realistic testing of fieldable prototypes developed under the ballistic missile defense spiral development program.
  23. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 126 • Confirmation: James L. Robart, of Washington, to be U.S. District Judge
  24. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 127 • Confirmation: Roger T. Benitez, of California, to be U.S. District Judge
  25. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 128 • Confirmation: Jane J. Boyle, of Texas, to be U.S. District Judge
  26. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 129 • Reed Amdt. No. 3352, As Amended; To increase the end strength for active duty personnel of the Army for fiscal year 2005 by 20,000 to 502,400.
  27. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 130 • Biden Amdt. No. 3379; To provide funds for the security and stabilization of Iraq by suspending a portion of the reduction in the highest income tax rate for individual taxpayers.
  28. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 131 • Warner Amdt. No. 3458, As Modified; Expressing the sense of Congress on media coverage of the return to the United States of the remains of deceased members of the Armed Forces from overseas.
  29. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 132 • Lautenberg Amdt No. 2191, As Modified; To require a protocol on media coverage of the return to the United States of the remains of members of the Armed Forces who die overseas.
  30. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 133 • Levin Amdt. No. 3338; To reallocate for Ground-based Midcourse interceptors to homeland defense and combatting terrorism.
  31. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 134 • Brownback Amdt. No. 3464; To increase the penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language.
  32. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 135 • McCain Amdt. No. 3461; In the nature of a substitute.
  33. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 136 • Motion To Waive CBA RE: Corzine Amdt. No. 3303; To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for nonregular service from 60 to 55.
  34. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 137 • McConnell Amdt. No. 3472; To require a report on the stabilization of Iraq.
  35. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 138 • Kennedy Amdt. No. 3377; To require reports on the efforts of the President to stabilize Iraq and relieve the burden on members of the Armed Forces of the United States deployed in Iraq and the Persian Gulf region.
  36. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 139 • Reed Amdt. No. 3353; To limit the obligation and expenditure of funds for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program pending the submission of a report on operational test and evaluation.
  37. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 140 • Byrd Amdt. No. 3423; To modify the number of military personnel and civilians who may be assigned or retained in connection with Plan Colombia.
  38. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 141 • Confirmation Juan R. Sanchez, of Pennsylvania, To Be U. S. District Judge
  39. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 142 • Confirmation Walter D. Kelley, Jr., of Virginia, To Be U.S. District Judge
  40. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 143 • Motion To Table Leahy Amdt. No. 3387; Relative to the treatment of foreign prisoners.
  41. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 144 • Leahy Amdt. No. 3485; To direct the Attorney General to submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate all documents in the possession of the Department of Justice relating to the treatment and interrogation of individuals held in the custody of t
  42. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 145 • Motion To Waive CBA Daschle Amdt. No. 3409 As Amended; To assure that funding is provided for veterans health care each fiscal year to cover increases in population and inflation.
  43. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 146 • An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes.
  44. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 147 • Byrd Amdt. No. 3502; To express the sense of the Senate on budgeting and funding of ongoing military operations overseas.
  45. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 148 • Motion to Table Biden Amdt. No. 3520 as Modified; To appropriate funds for bilateral economic assistance.
  46. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 149 • Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
  47. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 150 • Approving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003.
  48. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 151 • A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate in support of United States policy for a Middle East peace process.
  49. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 152 • Confirmation Diane S. Sykes, of Wisconsin, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge

July

  1. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 153 • Confirmation J. Leon Holmes, of Arkansas, to be U.S. District Judge
  2. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 154 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 2062; Class Action Fairness Act of 2004
  3. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 155 • A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 156 • To implement the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
  5. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 157 • DeWine Amdt. No. 3563; To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to eliminate the Federal quota and price support programs for tobacco, and to provide assistance to quot
  6. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 158 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of William Gerry Myers, III, of Idaho, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
  7. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 159 • A bill to implement the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
  8. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 160 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Henry W. Saad, of Michigan, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
  9. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 161 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Richard A. Griffin, of Michigan, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
  10. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 162 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of David W. McKeague, of Michigan, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
  11. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 163 • Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.

September

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 164 • Confirmation Virginia Maria Hernandez Covington, of Florida, to be U.S. District Judge
  2. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 165 • Confirmation Michael H. Schneider, Sr., of Texas, to be U.S. District Judge
  3. Fail❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 166 • Motion to Waive the CBA Re: Schumer Amdt. No. 3580; To appropriate an additional $150,000,000 for port security research and development grants.
  4. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 167 • Thomas Amdt. No. 3582; To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress, at least 60 days prior to award, a report on the results of an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 competition, to include estimated savings, performance
  5. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 168 • Leahy Amdt. No. 3584; To prohibit funds from being used to process or approve a competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 for services provided as of June 1, 2004, by certain employees of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Ser
  6. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 169 • Motion to Waive CBA Re: Byrd Amdt. No. 3597; To make available funds for certain border and transportation security programs.
  7. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 170 • Motion to Waive CBA Re: Dodd Amdt. No. 3604; To increase the among provided for first responder programs, and to provide offsets.
  8. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 171 • Motion to Waive CBA Re: Murray Amdt. No. 3596; To increase the amount available for port security grants by $300,000,000.
  9. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 172 • Motion to Table Boxer Amdt. No. 3609; To appropriate $70,000,000 for grants to States, local governments, and first responders to purchase or improve communication systems to allow for real-time interoperable communication between State and local first re
  10. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 173 • Motion to Table Schumer Amdt. No. 3615, as further modified; To appropriate $70,000,000 to support efforts for identification and tracking for shipments of hazardous materials and continue and expand upon the background check system for commercial driver
  11. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 174 • Motion to Waive C.B.A. re: Lautenberg Amdt. No. 3617; To ensure that the Coast Guard has sufficient resources for its traditional core.
  12. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 175 • Motion To Waive CBA Mikulski Amdt. No. 3624; To increase the amount appropriated for firefighter assistance grants.
  13. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 176 • Motion To Table Corzine Amdt. No. 3619, As Modified; To appropriate an additional $70,000,000 to enhance the security of chemical plants and to provide an offset.
  14. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 177 • Motion To Table Dayton Amdt. No. 3629; To ensure the continuation of benefits for certain individuals providing security services for Federal buildings.
  15. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 178 • Motion To Waive CBA Clinton Amdt. No. 3632; To appropriate an additional $625,000,000 for discretionary grants for high-threat, high-density urban areas.
  16. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 179 • Motion To Waive CBA Byrd Amdt. No. 3649; To provide funds for the Transportation Security Administration, United States Coast Guard, and the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.
  17. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 180 • Motion To Table Kennedy Amdt. NO. 3626; To require the President to provide to Congress a copy of the Scowcroft Commission report on improving the capabilities of the United States intelligence community.
  18. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 181 • Motion To Waive CBA Schumer Amdt. No. 3656; To increase funding for rail and transit security grants.
  19. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 182 • Motion To Waive CBA Schumer Amdt. No. 3655; To appropriate an additional $350,000,000 to improve the security at points of entry into the United States.
  20. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 183 • Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
  21. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 184 • H. R. 4567 As Amended; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005
  22. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 185 • Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
  23. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 186 • Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
  24. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 187 • Confirmation Porter J. Goss, of Florida, To Be Director of Central Intelligence
  25. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 188 • An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for working families, and for other purposes.
  26. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 189 • McCain Amdt. No. 3702; To add title VII of S. 2774, related to transportation security.
  27. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 190 • Hutchison Amdt. No. 3711; To provide for air cargo safety, and for other purposes.
  28. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 191 • Motion to Table Specter Amdt. No. 3761; To specify a term of service for the National Intelligence Director.
  29. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 192 • Motion to Table Specter Amdt. No. 3706; To provide the National Intelligence Director with the authority to supervise, direct, and control all elements of the intelligence community performing national intelligence missions.
  30. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 193 • Motion To Table Hollings Amdt. No. 3795; In the nature of a substitute.
  31. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 194 • Motion To Table Lautenberg Amdt. No. 3802; To stop corporations from financing terrorism.

October

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 195 • Motion To Table Byrd Amdt. No. 3845; To enhance the role of Congress in the oversight of the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government.
  2. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 196 • Motion to Table Stevens Amdt. No. 3903, As Modified; To modify the provisions relating to the availability to the public of intelligence funding information.
  3. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 197 • A bill to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes.
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 198 • Roberts Amdt. No. 3742 As Modified; To clarify the continuing applicability of section 504 of the National Security act of 1947 to the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated for the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United
  5. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 199 • A bill to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes.
  6. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 200 • McCain Amdt. No. 3999; To strike section 402 and vest intelligence appropriations jurisdiction in the Select Committee on Intelligence.
  7. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 201 • McCain Amdt. No. 4000; To ensure that the Committee has jurisdiction over the Transportation Security Administration.
  8. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 202 • Hatch Amdt. No. 4037; To retain jurisdiction over the Secret Service in the Committee on the Judiciary.
  9. Fail✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 203 • Biden Amdt. No. 4021; To provide that the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Relations (if not already a member of the select Committee) shall be ex officio members of the select Committee but shall have no vote in the Committee and s
  10. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 204 • Motion To Invoke Cloture On The McConnell Amdt. No. 3981; To implement the congressional oversight recommendations of the 9-11 Commission.
  11. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 205 • Motion To Instruct SGT At Arms; A resolution to eliminate certain restrictions on service of a Senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
  12. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 206 • Nickles Amdt. No. 4041; To vest sole jurisdiction over the Federal budget process in the Committee on the Budget, and to give the Committee on the Budget joint jurisdiction with the Governmental Affairs Committee over the process of reviewing, holding hea
  13. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 207 • Hutchison Amdt. No. 4015 As Amended; To implement responsible subcommittee reorganization in the Committee on Appropriations.
  14. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 208 • A resolution to eliminate certain restrictions on service of a Senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
  15. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 209 • A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 108th Congress should provide the necessary funds to make disaster assistance available for all customarily eligible agricultural producers as emergency spending and not funded by cuts to the farm bill.
  16. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 210 • To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.
  17. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 211 • To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.

November

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 212 • Confirmation Francis J. Harvey, Of California, To Be Secretary Of The Army
  2. Pass❌ Unpopular OutcomeRollcall 213 • A bill to amend title 31 of the United States Code to increase the public debt limit.
  3. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 214 • Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 1047; Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004
  4. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 215 • Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.

December

  1. Pass✅ Popular OutcomeRollcall 216 • A bill to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes.