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December 12, 2008

Senate Aid Votes

RCP

This list cross-references the Senate votes on approving aid for the country's financial institutions (Roll Call #213) and the country's automobile manufacturers (Roll Call #215). Passage of aid for the financial institutions passed on a 74-25 vote. A cloture vote on aid for automobile manufacturers failed, 52-35. Both bills needed 60 votes to pass.

Senators For Banking Aid and Auto Aid - 43
Democrats - 34
Akaka (HI)
Bayh (IN)
Bingaman (NM)
Boxer (CA)
Brown (OH)
Byrd (WV)
Cardin (MD)
Carper (DE)
Casey (PA)
Clinton (NY)
Conrad (ND)
Dodd (CT)
Durbin (IL)
Feinstein (CA)
Harkin (IA)
Inouye (HI)
Klobuchar (MN)
Kohl (WI)
Lautenberg (NJ)
Leahy (VT)
Levin (MI)
McCaskill (MO)
Menendez (NJ)
Mikulski (MD)
Murray (WA)
Nelson (NE)
Pryor (AR)
Reed (RI)
Reid (NV)*
Rockerfeller (WV)
Salazar (CO)
Schumer (NY)
Webb (VA)
Whitehouse (RI)

Republicans - 8
Bond (MO)
Collins (ME)
Domenici (NM)^
Lugar (IN)
Snowe (ME)
Specter (PA)
Voinovich (OH)
Warner (VA)^

Independents - 1
Lieberman

Senators Against Banking Aid and Auto Aid - 14
Democrats - 1
Tester (MT)

Republicans-13
Allard (CO)^
Barrasso (WY)
Bunning (KY)
Cochran (MS)
Crapo (ID)
DeMint (SC)
Enzi (WY)
Inhofe (OK)
Roberts (KS)
Sessions (AL)
Shelby (AL)
Vitter (LA)
Wicker (MS)

Senators For Banking Aid, Against Auto Aid - 20
Democrats - 2
Baucus (MT)
Lincoln (AR)

Republicans - 18
Bennett (UT)
Burr (NC)
Chambliss (GA)
Coburn (OK)
Coleman (MN)
Corker (TN)
Ensign (NV)
Grassley (IA)
Gregg (NH)
Hatch (UT)
Hutchison (TX)
Isakson (GA)
Kyl (AZ)
Martinez (FL)
McCain (AZ)
McConnell (KY)
Murkowski (AK)
Thune (SD)

Senators Against Banking Aid, For Auto Aid - 10
Democrats - 7
Cantwell (WA)
Dorgan (ND)
Feingold (WI)
Johnson (SD)
Landrieu (LA)
Nelson (FL)
Stabenow (MI)

Republicans - 2
Brownback (KS)
Dole (NC)^

Independents - 1
Sanders (VT)

Missing One or Both Votes - 13
Democrats - 5
Biden (DE) - Autos^
Kennedy (MA) - Both
Kerry (MA) - Auto
Obama (IL) - Autos**^
Wyden (OR) - Autos

Republicans - 8
Alexander (TN) - Autos
Cornyn (TX) - Autos
Craig (ID) - Autos^
Graham (SC) - Autos
Hagel (NE) - Autos^
Smith (OR) - Autos^
Stevens (AK) - Autos^
Sununu (NH) - Autos^

^Senators who will not be in the Senate in 2009.
*Reid supported aid for the automobile manufacturers, but switched his vote to "no" because of procedural rules. Those rules are better explained here.
**President-elect Obama resigned his Senate seat in November and has not been replaced.

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