Senate Rejects Arctic Drilling
On December
21, the U.S. Senate blocked drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge by sustaining a filibuster of the Defense
Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2863), which included an Arctic
drilling provision. The pro-drilling forces needed 60 votes
for “cloture” --
to break the filibuster of the bill -- but they could only muster
56. Below, please find information about how your Senators
voted on the cloture motion. Remember: a NO vote was a vote
to protect the Arctic Refuge. A YES vote was a vote to drill
in the Refuge. The table below is organized to show all the
"NO" votes first sorted by party followed by all the "YES"
votes sorted by party. [Please
note: Senator Majority Frist voted NO for procedural reasons,
not because he opposes drilling.]
| Senator
Blanche Lincoln |
D |
AR |
No |
| Senator
Mark Pryor |
D |
AR |
No |
| Senator
Barbara Boxer |
D |
CA |
No |
| Senator
Dianne Feinstein |
D |
CA |
No |
| Senator
Ken Salazar |
D |
CO |
No |
| Senator
Christopher Dodd |
D |
CT |
No |
| Senator
Joseph Lieberman |
D |
CT |
No |
| Senator
Tom Carper |
D |
DE |
No |
| Senator
Joseph Biden |
D |
DE |
No |
| Senator
Bill Nelson |
D |
FL |
No |
| Senator
Tom Harkin |
D |
IA |
No |
| Senator
Richard Durbin |
D |
IL |
No |
| Senator
Barack Obama |
D |
IL |
No |
| Senator
Evan Bayh |
D |
IN |
No |
| Senator
John Kerry |
D |
MA |
No |
| Senator
Edward Kennedy |
D |
MA |
No |
| Senator
Barbara Mikulski |
D |
MD |
No |
| Senator
Paul Sarbanes |
D |
MD |
No |
| Senator
Carl Levin |
D |
MI |
No |
| Senator
Deborah Stabenow |
D |
MI |
No |
| Senator
Mark Dayton |
D |
MN |
No |
| Senator
Max Baucus |
D |
MT |
No |
| Senator
Kent Conrad |
D |
ND |
No |
| Senator
Byron Dorgan |
D |
ND |
No |
| Senator
Jon Corzine |
D |
NJ |
No |
| Senator
Frank Lautenberg |
D |
NJ |
No |
| Senator
Jeff Bingaman |
D |
NM |
No |
| Senator
Harry Reid |
D |
NV |
No |
| Senator
Hillary Clinton |
D |
NY |
No |
| Senator
Charles Schumer |
D |
NY |
No |
| Senator
Ron Wyden |
D |
OR |
No |
| Senator
John Reed |
D |
RI |
No |
| Senator
Tim Johnson |
D |
SD |
No |
| Senator
Patrick Leahy |
D |
VT |
No |
| Senator
Maria Cantwell |
D |
WA |
No |
| Senator
Patty Murray |
D |
WA |
No |
| Senator
Russell Feingold |
D |
WI |
No |
| Senator
Herbert Kohl |
D |
WI |
No |
| Senator
Robert Byrd |
D |
WV |
No |
| Senator
John Rockefeller, IV |
D |
WV |
No |
| Senator
James Jeffords |
I |
VT |
No |
| Senator
Michael DeWine |
R |
OH |
No |
| Senator
Lincoln Chafee |
R |
RI |
No |
| Senator
William Frist |
R |
TN |
No |
| Senator
Daniel Inouye |
D |
HI |
Yes |
| Senator
Daniel Akaka |
D |
HI |
Yes |
| Senator
Mary Landrieu |
D |
LA |
Yes |
| Senator
Ben Nelson |
D |
NE |
Yes |
| Senator
Ted Stevens |
R |
AK |
Yes |
| Senator
Jeff Sessions |
R |
AL |
Yes |
| Senator
Richard Shelby |
R |
AL |
Yes |
| Senator
Jon Kyl |
R |
AZ |
Yes |
| Senator
John McCain |
R |
AZ |
Yes |
| Senator
Wayne Allard |
R |
CO |
Yes |
| Senator
Mel Martinez |
R |
FL |
Yes |
| Senator
Saxby Chambliss |
R |
GA |
Yes |
| Senator
John Isakson |
R |
GA |
Yes |
| Senator
Charles Grassley |
R |
IA |
Yes |
| Senator
Larry Craig |
R |
ID |
Yes |
| Senator
Michael Crapo |
R |
ID |
Yes |
| Senator
Richard Lugar |
R |
IN |
Yes |
| Senator
Sam Brownback |
R |
KS |
Yes |
| Senator
Pat Roberts |
R |
KS |
Yes |
| Senator
Jim Bunning |
R |
KY |
Yes |
| Senator
Mitch McConnell |
R |
KY |
Yes |
| Senator
David Vitter |
R |
LA |
Yes |
| Senator
Susan Collins |
R |
ME |
Yes |
| Senator
Olympia Snowe |
R |
ME |
Yes |
| Senator
Norm Coleman |
R |
MN |
Yes |
| Senator
Christopher Bond |
R |
MO |
Yes |
| Senator
James Talent |
R |
MO |
Yes |
| Senator
Thad Cochran |
R |
MS |
Yes |
| Senator
Trent Lott |
R |
MS |
Yes |
| Senator
Conrad Burns |
R |
MT |
Yes |
| Senator
Richard Burr |
R |
NC |
Yes |
| Senator
Elizabeth Dole |
R |
NC |
Yes |
| Senator
Charles Hagel |
R |
NE |
Yes |
| Senator
Judd Gregg |
R |
NH |
Yes |
| Senator
John Sununu |
R |
NH |
Yes |
| Senator
Pete Domenici |
R |
NM |
Yes |
| Senator
John Ensign |
R |
NV |
Yes |
| Senator
George Voinovich |
R |
OH |
Yes |
| Senator
James Inhofe |
R |
OK |
Yes |
| Senator
Thomas Coburn |
R |
OK |
Yes |
| Senator
Gordon Smith |
R |
OR |
Yes |
| Senator
Richard Santorum |
R |
PA |
Yes |
| Senator
Arlen Specter |
R |
PA |
Yes |
| Senator
Jim DeMint |
R |
SC |
Yes |
| Senator
Lindsey Graham |
R |
SC |
Yes |
| Senator
John Thune |
R |
SD |
Yes |
| Senator
Lamar Alexander |
R |
TN |
Yes |
| Senator
John Cornyn |
R |
TX |
Yes |
| Senator
Kay Hutchison |
R |
TX |
Yes |
| Senator
Robert Bennett |
R |
UT |
Yes |
| Senator
Orrin Hatch |
R |
UT |
Yes |
| Senator
George Allen |
R |
VA |
Yes |
| Senator
John Warner |
R |
VA |
Yes |
| Senator
Michael Enzi |
R |
WY |
Yes |
| Senator
Craig Thomas |
R |
WY |
Yes |
| Senator
Lisa Murkowski |
R |
AK |
Yes |
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