Senate Votes This Week: How Did Republicans Vote?

Here are a few of the latest Senate votes. I’m sure the ‘liberal media’ will do its job by informing the public about the following. Apparently TV “journalists” don’t know how to read voting records.
Amendment 2735 – To support the health needs of our veterans and military personnel and reduce the deficit by making tax rates fairer for all Americans.

Yeas: 44 – 43 Democrats and one Independent
Nays: 53 – 52 Republicans and Nelson (D-NE)
Not Voting: 3

H.R. 4695 – A bill to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act.

Yeas: 95
Nays: 1 – Feingold (D-WI)
Not Voting: 4

Senate Amendment 2732 – To strengthen America’s military, to repeal the extension of tax rates for capital gains and dividends, to reduce the deficit, and for other purposes.

Yeas: 44 – 42 Democrats, one Independent and Chafee (R-RI)
Nays: 53 – 52 Republicans and Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Not Voting: 3

Senate Amendment 2716 – To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Yeas: 44 – 43 Democrats and one Independent
Nays: 53 – All Republicans
Not Voting: 3

Senate Amendment 2730 – To provide for necessary beneficiary protections in order to ensure access to coverage under the Medicare part D prescription drug program.

Yeas: 52 – 43 Democrats, one independent, Chafee (R-RI), Coleman (R-MN), Collins (R-ME), DeWine (R-OH), Hutchison (R-TX), Snowe (R-ME), Specter (R-PA) and Warner (R-VA)
Nays: 45 – All Republicans
Not Voting: 3

Author: storiesinamerica

I'm an independent journalist living and working in San Francisco. After the election, I decided it was time to leave my liberal bubble and travel to the so-called "Red States" to find out why people vote the way they do and what they think about politics