How They Voted
U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 110th Congress
Vitter Amdt. No.3330: To prohibit the provision of funds to grantees who perform abortions.
The Senate on Thursday voted 52-41 to reject an amendment to the fiscal year 2008 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill (S 1710) that would have cut Title X family planning program funding to clinics using nonfederal funds to provide abortion services, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports.
Senator Vitter offered an amendment to stop funding health clinics, Planned Parenthood and other providers of reproductive health services if they use money from nonfederal sources to perform abortions.
How Did Our Presidential Contenders Vote?
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd did not vote. Senator Brownback and Senator McCain voted to stop this funding.
How Did Our Catholic Senators Vote?
Of the 25 Catholic Senators, 8 Senators voted to stop fundin abortion providers, 13 Senators voted to continue fundinf and 4 did not vote.
Catholic Senators voting to stop funding: Martinez (R-FL), Brownback (R-KS), Bunning (R-KY), Vitter (R-LA), Domenici (R-NM), Ensign (R-NV), Sununu (R-NH), Voinovich (R-OH)
Catholic Senators voting to continue funding to abortion providers: Murkowski (R-AK), Slazar (D-CO), Harkin (D-IA), Durbin (D-IL), Kerry (D-MA), McCaskill (D-MO), Collins (R-ME), Landrieu (D-LA), Casey (D-PA), Reed (D-RI), Leahy (D-VT), Cantwell (D-WA) and Murray (D-WA).
Catholic Senators Not Voting: Dodd (D-CT), Biden (D-DE), Kennedy (D-MA), Mikulski (D-MD)
Vote Summary
| Question: On the Amendment (Vitter Amdt. No.3330 ) | |||
| Vote Number: | 379 | Vote Date: | October 18, 2007, 06:22 PM |
| Required For Majority: | 1/2 | Vote Result: | Amendment Rejected |
| Amendment Number: | S.Amdt. 3330 to S.Amdt. 3325 to H.R. 3043 (Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008) | ||
| Statement of Purpose: | To prohibit the provision of funds to grantees who perform abortions. | ||
| Vote Counts: | YEAs | 41 |
| NAYs | 52 | |
| Not Voting | 7 |
Grouped by Home State
| Alabama: | Sessions (R-AL), Yea | Shelby (R-AL), Yea |
| Alaska: | Murkowski (R-AK), Nay | Stevens (R-AK), Nay |
| Arizona: | Kyl (R-AZ), Yea | McCain (R-AZ), Yea |
| Arkansas: | Lincoln (D-AR), Nay | Pryor (D-AR), Nay |
| California: | Boxer (D-CA), Nay | Feinstein (D-CA), Nay |
| Colorado: | Allard (R-CO), Yea | Salazar (D-CO), Nay |
| Connecticut: | Dodd (D-CT), Not Voting | Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay |
| Delaware: | Biden (D-DE), Not Voting | Carper (D-DE), Nay |
| Florida: | Martinez (R-FL), Yea | Nelson (D-FL), Nay |
| Georgia: | Chambliss (R-GA), Yea | Isakson (R-GA), Yea |
| Hawaii: | Akaka (D-HI), Nay | Inouye (D-HI), Nay |
| Idaho: | Craig (R-ID), Yea | Crapo (R-ID), Yea |
| Illinois: | Durbin (D-IL), Nay | Obama (D-IL), Not Voting |
| Indiana: | Bayh (D-IN), Nay | Lugar (R-IN), Nay |
| Iowa: | Grassley (R-IA), Yea | Harkin (D-IA), Nay |
| Kansas: | Brownback (R-KS), Yea | Roberts (R-KS), Yea |
| Kentucky: | Bunning (R-KY), Yea | McConnell (R-KY), Yea |
| Louisiana: | Landrieu (D-LA), Nay | Vitter (R-LA), Yea |
| Maine: | Collins (R-ME), Nay | Snowe (R-ME), Nay |
| Maryland: | Cardin (D-MD), Nay | Mikulski (D-MD), Not Voting |
| Massachusetts: | Kennedy (D-MA), Not Voting | Kerry (D-MA), Nay |
| Michigan: | Levin (D-MI), Nay | Stabenow (D-MI), Nay |
| Minnesota: | Coleman (R-MN), Yea | Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay |
| Mississippi: | Cochran (R-MS), Yea | Lott (R-MS), Yea |
| Missouri: | Bond (R-MO), Nay | McCaskill (D-MO), Nay |
| Montana: | Baucus (D-MT), Nay | Tester (D-MT), Nay |
| Nebraska: | Hagel (R-NE), Yea | Nelson (D-NE), Nay |
| Nevada: | Ensign (R-NV), Yea | Reid (D-NV), Nay |
| New Hampshire: | Gregg (R-NH), Yea | Sununu (R-NH), Yea |
| New Jersey: | Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay | Menendez (D-NJ), Nay |
| New Mexico: | Bingaman (D-NM), Nay | Domenici (R-NM), Yea |
| New York: | Clinton (D-NY), Not Voting | Schumer (D-NY), Nay |
| North Carolina: | Burr (R-NC), Yea | Dole (R-NC), Yea |
| North Dakota: | Conrad (D-ND), Nay | Dorgan (D-ND), Nay |
| Ohio: | Brown (D-OH), Nay | Voinovich (R-OH), Yea |
| Oklahoma: | Coburn (R-OK), Yea | Inhofe (R-OK), Yea |
| Oregon: | Smith (R-OR), Yea | Wyden (D-OR), Nay |
| Pennsylvania: | Casey (D-PA), Nay | Specter (R-PA), Nay |
| Rhode Island: | Reed (D-RI), Nay | Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay |
| South Carolina: | DeMint (R-SC), Yea | Graham (R-SC), Yea |
| South Dakota: | Johnson (D-SD), Nay | Thune (R-SD), Yea |
| Tennessee: | Alexander (R-TN), Yea | Corker (R-TN), Yea |
| Texas: | Cornyn (R-TX), Yea | Hutchison (R-TX), Yea |
| Utah: | Bennett (R-UT), Yea | Hatch (R-UT), Yea |
| Vermont: | Leahy (D-VT), Nay | Sanders (I-VT), Nay |
| Virginia: | Warner (R-VA), Not Voting | Webb (D-VA), Nay |
| Washington: | Cantwell (D-WA), Nay | Murray (D-WA), Nay |
| West Virginia: | Byrd (D-WV), Nay | Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay |
| Wisconsin: | Feingold (D-WI), Nay | Kohl (D-WI), Nay |
| Wyoming: | Barrasso (R-WY), Yea | Enzi (R-WY), Yea |
