Voting Record
108th Congress, First Session - 2003
| Vote No. | Date 2003 | Voting Position |
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| 459 | 11-25 | N | Adoption of conference report. (54-44) |
| *458 | 11-24 | N | Frist motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of bill. (61-39) |
| Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act (H.R. 1) | |||
| *457 | 11-24 | N | Frist, et al., cloture motion on conference report. (70-29) |
| Energy Policy Act (H.R. 6) | |||
| *456 | 11-21 | N | Cloture motion on conference report. (57-40) |
| Nomination of Thomas C. Dorr to be a Member of the Board of Directors of Commodity Credit Corporation. | |||
| *455 | 11-18 | N | Cloture motion on nomination. (57-39) |
| Nomination of Thomas C. Dorr to be Under Secretary of Agriculture | |||
| *454 | 11-18 | N | Cloture motion on nomination. (57-39) |
| Aviation Investment and Revitalization Vision (H.R. 2115) | |||
| *453 | 11-17 | N | Cloture motion. (45-43) |
| Nomination of Janice R. Brown to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the D.C. Circuit | |||
| *452 | 11-14 | N | Frist, et al., cloture motion on nomination. (53-43) |
| Nomination of Carolyn B. Kuhl to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit | |||
| *451 | 11-14 | N | Frist, et al., cloture motion on nomination. (53-43) |
| Nomination of Priscilla R. Owen to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit | |||
| *450 | 11-14 | N | Frist, et al., fourth cloture motion on nomination. (53-42) |
| VA-HUD Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2861) | |||
| *449 | 11-12 | Y | Mikulski motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Mikulski amendment: Adds $3 billion to EPA's clean water loan fund for sewer and waste water construction; and designates additional funding as an emergency. (44-49) |
| Military Construction Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2559) | |||
| 448 | 11-12 | Y | Adoption of conference report. (98-0) |
| 447 | 11-12 | Y | Adoption of conference report.. (95-3) |
| DOD Authorization, 2004 (H.R. 1588) | |||
| 446 | 11-11 | Y | Frist motion to proceed to consideration of conference report. (87-1) |
| Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration (H.R. 1828) | |||
| 445 | 11-11 | Y | Passage. (89-4) |
| 444 | 11-6 | Y | Passage. (93-1) |
| 443 | 11-6 | N | Daschle, et al, amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that conferees on part of the Senate on Agricultural Appropriations bill shall insist that no limits on the use of funds to enforce country of origin labeling requirements for meat or meat products be included in conference report accompanying the bill. (36-58) |
| Agriculture Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2673) | |||
| 442 | 11-6 | Y | Leahy, et al., amendment: Protects funding for working lands conservation programs from being used to pay for Conservation Reserve Program technical assistance, which was authorized under Farm Bill to be paid out of Commodity Credit Corporation. (38-56) |
| Nomination of William H. Pryor to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit | |||
| *441 | 11-6 | N | Frist, et al., second cloture motion on nomination. (51-43) |
| *440 | 11-5 | Y | Dayton motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Dayton-Nelson amendment: Requires Agriculture Secretary to use such sums as necessary from Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial assistance to producers on a farm that have incurred qualifying crop losses for 2001, 2002, or 2003 crop years or any combination of those crops due to damaging weather or related conditions, minus any assistance received under those laws. (40-55) |
| Agriculture Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2673) | |||
| 439 | 11-5 | Y | Cantwell, et al., amendment: Provides for broad prohibition on all manipulative practices in electricity markets, rather than just round-trip trading; and specifies that electricity rates resulting from manipulative practices are not legal under Federal Power Act. (57-40) |
| Nomination of Roger W. Titus to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland | |||
| 438 | 11-5 | Y | Confirmation. (97-0) |
| Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (H.R. 2622) | |||
| 437 | 11-5 | Y | Passage. (95-2) |
| Agriculture Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2673) | |||
| 436 | 11-5 | Y | Feinstein, et al., amendment: Requires Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to promulgate regulations establishing an electronic information system to facilitate price transparency and participation in markets subject to jurisdiction of the Commission; prohibits any person or entity from knowingly entering into any contract or other arrangement to execute a round trip trade; increases criminal and civil penalties for violations of Federal Power Act and general penalties of Natural Gas Act; prohibits manipulation in wholesale electricity markets and gives FERC discretionary authority to revoke market-based rates for violations; repeals "Enron" exemption for large traders in energy derivatives and applies anti-manipulation and anti-fraud provisions of Commodity Exchange Act to all Over-the-Counter trades in energy derivatives; and provides an exception for financial derivatives and metals. (41-56) |
| 435 | 11-4 | N | Shelby motion to table Feingold amendment: Requires each Federal agency or department head that is engaged in any activity to use or develop data-mining technology to submit a public report to Congress on all such activities of the department or agency under jurisdiction of that official. (61-32) |
| National Consumer Credit Reporting System Improvement Act (S. 1753) | |||
| 434 | 11-4 | N | Shelby motion to table Feinstein amendment: Strikes section in underlying bill relating to affiliate sharing; inserts a new section providing consumers with notice and opportunity to "opt-out" of sharing of their personal consumer information between companies and their affiliates. (70-24) |
| Interior Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2691) | |||
| 433 | 11-3 | Y | Adoption of conference report. (87-2) |
| 432 | 10-30 | Y | Bingaman-Daschle amendment: Provides additional $200 million for Global AIDS initiative; and reduces Millennium Challenge Account by $200 million to President's budget request, which would not otherwise be spent. (41-51) |
| *431 | 10-30 | Y | Durbin motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Durbin, et al., amendment: Provides additional $589.7 million for Global AIDS Initiative, to remain available until September 30, 2006, for programs for prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which may include additional contributions to Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, bringing total funding level to $3 billion, the authorized level for Global Aids. (42-50) |
| 430 | 10-30 | Y | Feinstein-Snowe, et al., amendment: Clarifies definition of "HIV/AIDS prevention" as only those programs and activities that are directed at preventing sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS, and activities that include a priority emphasis on public health benefits of refraining from sexual activity before marriage; and stipulates that requirement in Global Aids Authorization bill that one-third of all prevention funding must be dedicated to "abstinence until marriage programs" applies only to funds for prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, rather than to all prevention funds such as funds for HIV testing and education and information programs to prevent AIDS. (45-47) |
| Foreign Operations Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2800) | |||
| 429 | 10-30 | Y | DeWine-Durbin, et al., amendment: Provides additional $289 million for Global AIDS Initiative programs for prevention, treatment and control of and research on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which may include additional contributions to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (89-1) |
| 428 | 10-30 | Y | Passage. (80-14) |
| 427 | 10-30 | N | Crapo motion to table Harkin amendment: Strikes permanent authorization and permits 5 year authority for Title I of Healthy Forests Restoration. (61-31) |
| 426 | 10-30 | N | Crapo motion to table Cantwell amendment: Strikes section of bill which limits number of alternatives considered in environmental impact statements, as currently required under National Environmental Policy Act. (57-34) |
| 425 | 10-30 | N | Crapo motion to table Murray amendment: Applies "old growth" to all five categories of Federal lands. (62-32) |
| 424 | 10-30 | N | Crapo motion to table Boxer amendment: Increases from 50% to 70% the percentage of funds that will be used to reduce fire danger close to at-risk communities. (61-34) |
| 423 | 10-30 | N | Cochran motion to table Leahy amendment: Strikes following sections of bill: (1) section 105, special Forest Service Administrative Review Process which directs Secretary to issue final regulations to establish an administrative review process for proposed hazardous fuel reduction projects within 90 days of enactment of this Act, and (2) Section 106, Special Requirements regarding Judicial Review of authorized hazardous fuels reduction projects which would establish time limit for filing challenge to an authorized hazardous fuels reduction project to 15 days within notice of the final agency action. (62-33) |
| 422 | 10-30 | N | Cochran motion to table Bingaman amendment: Requires Secretaries, in implementing hazardous fuels reduction projects, to ensure that: (1) a slash, trimmings off the tree, treatment plan is completed; (2) acres are not identified as treated, in annual program accomplishment reports, until all phases of multi-year project such as thinning, slash reduction, and prescribed burning are completed, and (3) a system to track budgeting and implementation of follow-up treatments shall be used to account for long-term maintenance of areas managed to reduce hazardous fuels. (58-36) |
| Healthy Forests Restoration (H.R. 1904) | |||
| *421 | 10-30 | Y | Reid motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Bingaman amendment: Provides Agriculture Secretary authority to receive additional funds from Treasury to pay for firefighting costs if fire suppression costs exceed funding available to Forest Service for fire suppression, at which point Agriculture Secretary is required to submit to Congress an audit of expenditure funds and if Inspector General determines that funds were used for purposes other than fire suppression or were unreasonable or excessive, the Secretary is required to reimburse the Treasury; provides cost-share grants to Indian tribes, local fire districts, municipalities, homeowner associations, and counties to conduct hazardous fuels reduction and burned area restoration projects on non-Federal land; and authorizes $100 million out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for each FYs 2004 through 2008. (36-60) |
| Climate Stewardship (S. 139) | |||
| 420 | 10-30 | N | Lieberman-McCain, et al., substitute amendment: Requires reduction of "greenhouse gas" emissions to 2000 levels by 2010. (43-55) |
| Nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Jr. to be U.S. Circuit Judge | |||
| *419 | 10-30 | N | Frist, et al., cloture motion on nomination. (54-43) |
| 418 | 10-29 | Y | Boxer amendment: Authorizes program for EPA to monitor additional air toxins following a fire that is declared Federal disaster. (78-17) |
| 417 | 10-29 | Y | Boxer amendment: Authorizes medical monitoring program for firefighters exposed to dangerous toxins as result of Federally-declared disaster, which will end when EPA has determined danger has subsided. (94-3) |
| Healthy Forests Restoration (H.R. 1904) | |||
| 416 | 10-29 | Y | Cochran, et. al., amendment: Strikes Title I of bill and substitutes it with language that: (1) allows treatment of 20 million acres of Federal lands at high risk of catastrophic ecosystem and life-altering fire, (2) specifies that Forest Service must consider three alternatives when doing environmental analysis of projects, (3) changes U.S. Forest Service appeals process to mirror Bureau of Land Management process, allowing for appeals after environmental analysis is done but before Forest Service makes its final decision, (4) modifies judicial review procedures to limit preliminary injunctions to 60-days with ability for injunctions to be renewed and requires court to weigh whether project would cause more harm or good for the environment, (5) requires 50% of funds to be spent on projects that occur inside the wildland-urban interface, and other 50% of funds can be spent on hazardous fuels reduction projects on other priority lands, and (6) requires that authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects maintain old growth where it is in pristine condition. (97-1) |
| **415 | 10-29 | Y | Dorgan motion to suspend rules of Senate in order to permit consideration of Dorgan amendment: Finds that: (1) President has prevented release to American people of 28 pages of Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11/01, (2) contents of redacted pages discuss sources of foreign support for some of 9/11 hijackers while they were in U.S., (3) Senate respects need to keep information regarding intelligence sources and methods classified, but Senate also recognizes that such purposes can be accomplished through careful selective redaction of specific words and passages, rather than effacing section's contents entirely; and expresses sense of Senate that President should declassify 28-page section of Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11/01 that deals with foreign sources of support for 9/11 hijackers, and that only those portions of report that would directly compromise ongoing investigations or reveal intelligence sources and methods should remain classified. (43-54) |
| 414 | 10-28 | Y | Byrd amendment: Prohibits use of any funds made available in this Act, or any other appropriations act, by Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), unless CPA administrator is an officer of U.S. government appointed by President and with advice and consent of Senate; and makes prohibition effective March 1, 2004. (44-53) |
| Foreign Operations Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2800) | |||
| **413 | 10-28 | N | Lugar motion to suspend rules of Senate in order to permit consideration of Lugar amendment: Authorizes appropriations for Foreign Relations and for Foreign Assistance, and authorizes Millennium Challenge Assistance. (40-57) |
| Nomination of Michael O. Leavitt to be Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency | |||
| 412 | 10-28 | Y | Confirmation. (88-8) |
| Nomination of Dale S. Fischer to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California | |||
| 411 | 10-27 | Y | Confirmation. (86-0) |
| 410 | 10-23 | Y | Passage. (91-3) |
| * 409 | 10-23 | Y | Dodd motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Dodd, et al., amendment: Provides $1 billion to fund Election Assistance Commission in FY 2004. (63-31) |
| 408 | 10-23 | Y | Mikulski, et al., amendment: Prohibits use of funds for implementing the 2003 revision of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 which contained newly revised guidleines for public/private competitions. (47-48) |
| 407 | 10-23 | Y | Thomas-Voinovich amendment: Requires a substitute annual report on competitive sourcing activities on list required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 that were performed during previous fiscal year for executive agencies by Federal government sources. (95-1) |
| 406 | 10-23 | Y | Stevens motion to table Feingold amendment: Provides that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in FY 2004. (60-34) |
| Transportation-Treasury-Independent Agencies Appropriations, 2004 (H.R. 2989) | |||
| 405 | 10-23 | N | Motion to table Dorgan, et al., amendment: Prohibits enforcement of the ban on travel to Cuba. (36-59) |
| CAN-SPAM Act (S. 877) | |||
| 404 | 10-22 | Y | Passage. (97-0) |
| Class Action Reform (S. 1751) | |||
| * 403 | 10-22 | N | Frist, et al., cloture motion on motion to proceed to bill. (59-39) |
| Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (S. 3) | |||
| 402 | 10-21 | N | Adoption of conference report. (64-34) |
| Nomination of Margaret Catherine Rodgers to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Florida | |||
| 401 | 10-20 | Y | Confirmation. (82-0) |
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