Members of Congress / Craig Thomas / Votes
| Date | Vote | Position | GOP opinion | DEM opinion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vote 181: On the Motion: This $120 billion dollar package was passed in the Senate by an 80-14 vote on May 24. The bill primarily focuses on funding for the Iraq war but also addresses other unrelated topics.
A previous war funding bill was vetoed by the president because it included troop withdrawal deadlines, which were largely supported by anti-war Democrats. Ten Democrats opposed this new bill with no withdrawal deadlines, while 37 supported its passage. Congress had to act to replace war funding that would have ended May 28. According to the Washington Post, this bill includes 18 “benchmarks that the Iraqi government must meet to continue receiving reconstruction aid.” One hundred billion dollars in funding is slated to support continuing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill says that the President and Congress must not take any action that will endanger the troops and that they provide any funds necessary for training, equipment and other types of support to ensure their safety and the effectiveness of their missions. The president is required to give a first report on the Iraqis' progress in meeting the benchmarks to Congress on July 15. Seventeen billion dollars in the package is for domestic spending. Out of this funding, $6.4 billion is for Gulf Coast hurricane relief efforts, $3 billion in emergency aid for farmers, $1 billion to upgrade port and mass transit security, $3 billion towards converting closing U.S. military bases to other uses, and $650 million to increase funding for children’s health care. A Congressional Research Service summary states that the “other domestic beneficiaries include state HIV grant programs, mine safety research, youth violence prevention activities, and pandemic flu protection.” Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hilary Clinton (N.Y.) were among the 14 who opposed the bill. | Not Voting | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 180: S 1348: Vitter Amdt. No. 1157; To strike title VI (related to Nonimmigrants in the United States Previously in Unlawful Status). | Not Voting | No | No | |
| Vote 179: S 1348: Sanders Amdt. No. 1223; To establish the American Competitiveness Scholarship Program. | Not Voting | No | Yes | |
| Vote 178: S 1348: Dorgan Amdt. No. 1181; To sunset the Y-1 nonimmigrant visa program after a 5-year period. | Not Voting | No | Yes | |
| Vote 177: S 1348: Coleman Amdt. No. 1158; To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to facilitate information sharing between federal and local law enforcement officials related to an individual's immigration status. | Not Voting | Yes | No | |
| Vote 176: S 1348: Akaka Amdt. No. 1186; To exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on immigrant visas. | Not Voting | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 175: S 1348: Bingaman Amdt. No. 1169; No Statement of Purpose on File. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 174: S 1348: Dorgan Amdt. No. 1153; To strike the Y nonimmigrant guestworker program. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 173: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S.1348; Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 172: S CON RES 21: S. Con. Res. 21 Conference Report; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 171: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke cloture on the Reid Amdt. No. 1123; Expressing the sense of the Congress that no action should be taken to undermine the safety of the Armed Forces of the United States or impact their ability to complete their assigned or future missions. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 170: H R 1495: H.R. 1495 As Amended; Water Resources Development Act of 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 169: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Cochran Amdt. No. 1135; To express the sense of the Senate that Congress must send to the President acceptable legislation to continue funds for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom by not later than May 28, 2007. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 168: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Warner Amdt. No. 1134; Relative to the President's strategy in Iraq. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 167: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Feingold Amdt. No. 1098; To provide for a transition of the Iraq mission. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 166: H R 1495: Kerry Amdt. No. 1094; To require the consideration of certain factors relating to global climate change. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 165: H R 1495: Feingold Amdt. No. 1086; To establish a Water Resources Commission to prioritize water resources projects in the United States. | No | No | No | |
| Vote 164: H R 1495: Coburn Amdt. No. 1089; To prioritize Federal spending to ensure the needs of Louisiana residents who lost their homes as a result of Hurricane Katrina and Rita are met before spending money to design or construct a nonessential visitors center. | No | No | No | |
| Vote 163: H R 1495: Coburn Amdt. No. 1090; To prioritize Federal spending to ensure the residents of the city of Sacramento are protected from the threat of floods before spending money to add sand to beaches in San Diego. | No | No | No | |
| Vote 162: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R.1495; Water Resources Development Act of 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 161: On the Motion: Gregg Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 21; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 160: On the Motion: Conrad Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res.21; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 159: On the Motion: Kyl Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: S. Con. Res. 21; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 158: On the Nomination: Confirmation Debra Ann Livingston to be U.S. Circuit Judge | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 157: S 1082: S.1082 as Amended; Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 156: S 1082: Durbin Amdt. No. 1034; To reduce financial conflict of interest in FDA Advisory Panels. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 155: S 1082: Grassley Amdt. No. 998; To provide for the application of stronger civil penalties for violations of approved risk evaluation and mitigation strategies. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 154: S 1082: Grassley Amdt. No. 1039; To clarify the authority of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology with respect to postmarket drug safety pursuant to recommendations by the Institute of Medicine. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 153: On the Nomination: Confirmation Frederick J. Kapala, of Illinois, to be U.S. District Judge | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 152: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Committee Substitute as Modified and Amended to S.1082; Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 151: S 1082: Cochran Amdt. No. 1010; To protect the health and safety of the public. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 150: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Dorgan Amdt. No. 990; To provide for the importation of prescription drugs. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 149: S 1082: Durbin Amdt. No. 1022, as Modified; To ensure the safety of human and pet food. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 148: S 1082: Allard Amdt. No. 982; To strike provisions related to market exclusivity. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 147: H R 1591: H.R. 1591 Conference Report; U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 146: S 761: S. 761 As Amended; A bill to invest in innovation and education to improve the competitiveness of the United States in the global economy. | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 145: S 761: Coburn Amdt. No. 922; To promote transparency at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 144: S 761: Coburn Amdt. No. 921; To discontinue the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 143: S 761: Coburn Amdt. No. 918; To provide a sunset date. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 142: S 761: DeMint Amdt. No. 930; To prohibit congressional earmarks of funds appropriated pursuant to authorizations in the bill. | Yes | No | No | |
| Vote 141: S 761: Sununu Amdt. No. 938; To strike the provisions regarding strengthening the education and human resources directorate of the National Science Foundation. | Yes | None | No | |
| Vote 140: S 761: Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 917; To express the sense of the Senate that Congress has a moral obligation to offset the cost of new Government programs and initiatives. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 139: S 761: Motion to Table DeMint Amdt. No. 928; To amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, with respect to smaller public company options regarding internal controls. | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Vote 138: S 761: Dodd Amdt. No. 947, As Modified; To express the sense of the Senate with respect to small business growth and capital markets. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 137: S 761: DeMint Amdt. No. 929; To require the study on barriers to innovation to include an examination of the impact of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 on innovation. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 136: On the Nomination: Confirmation Halil Suleyman Ozerden, of Mississippi, to be U.S. District Judge | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 135: S 378: Final Passage S. 378, As Amended; Court Security Improvement Act of 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 134: S 378: Motion to Table Coburn Amdt. No. 891; To express the sense of the Senate that Congress should offset the cost of new spending. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 133: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of S. 378; Court Security Improvement Act of 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 132: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of S. 3; Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007 | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 131: On the Cloture Motion: Upon Reconsideration, Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 372; Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 130: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 372; Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 129: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S.372; Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 128: S 30: S. 30; HOPE Act | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 127: S 5: S. 5; Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 125: Whether the Amendment is Germane: Is Section 431 of the Senate Language to H.R. 1591 Germane?; In the nature of a substitute. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 126: H R 1591: H.R. 1591, As Amended; U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007 | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 124: H R 1591: Biden Amdt. No. 739; To appropriate an additional $1,500,000,000 for Procurement, Marine Corps, to accelerate the procurement of an additional 2,500 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles for the Armed Forces. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 123: H R 1591: DeMint Amdt. No. 704; To prohibit the use of funds to make payments to certain spinach growers and first handlers. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 122: H R 1591: Ensign Amdt. No. 752, As Modified; To provide additional funding for certain programs under the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act of 2006, by increasing funding for the United States Marshals Service to track down convicted sex offenders who have failed to register as a sex offender as required by law and by increasing funding for United States attorneys to prosecute child exploitation and child pornography cases as part of Project Safe Childhood. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 121: H R 1591: Coburn Amdt. No. 648; To remove $100 million in funding for the Republican and Democrat party conventions in 2008. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 120: H R 1591: Coburn Amdt. No. 657; To provide farm assistance in a fiscally responsible manner. | Yes | No | No | |
| Vote 119: H R 1591: Burr Amdt. No. 716, As Modified; To reauthorize the secure rural schools and community self-determination program and to provide funding for the payments in lieu of taxes program. | No | No | No | |
| Vote 118: H R 1591: Wyden Amdt. No. 709; To reauthorize the secure rural schools and community self-determination program and to provide funding for the payments in lieu of taxes program. | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 117: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R. 1591; U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 116: H R 1591: Cochran Amd. No. 643; To strike language that would tie the hands of the Commander-in-Chief by imposing an arbitrary timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, thereby undermining the position of American Armed Forces and jeopardizing the successful conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 115: On the Nomination: Confirmation George H. Wu, of California, to be U.S. District Judge | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 114: S CON RES 21: S. Con. Res. 21 as Amended; An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 113: S CON RES 21: Lott Amdt. No. 606; To repeal section 13203 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 by restoring the Alternative Minimum Tax rates that had been in effect prior thereto. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 112: S CON RES 21: Chambliss Amendment No. 536; To provide a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that eliminates enhanced Federal matching payments for coverage of nonpregnant adults and permits States to offer supplemental dental and mental health benefits for children enrolled in SCHIP. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 111: S CON RES 21: Bunning Amdt. No. 594 as Modified; To provide a deficit-neutral reserve fund for protecting State flexibility in Medicaid. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 110: S CON RES 21: Biden Amdt. No. 529; To increase funding for the COPS Program to $1.15 billion for FY 2008 to provide state and local law enforcement with critical resources necessary to prevent and respond to violent crime and acts of terrorism and is offset by an unallocated reduction to non-defense discretionary spending and/or reduction to administrative expenses. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 109: S CON RES 21: DeMint Amdt. No. 578; To repeal the death tax. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 108: S CON RES 21: Grassley Amdt. No. 471; To amend the budget resolution for fiscal year 2008 in order to accommodate the full repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax preventing 23 million families and individuals from being subject to the AMT in 2007, and millions of families and individuals in subsequent years. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 107: S CON RES 21: Graham Amdt. No. 478; To extend the 35, 33, 28, and 25 percent income tax rate structure and protect nearly 28,000,000 families and individuals, including small business owners, from having their tax rates increase to 39.6, 36, 31, or 28 percent. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 106: S CON RES 21: Thomas Amendment No. 515; To prevent the adding of extraneous earmarks to an emergency war supplemental. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 105: S CON RES 21: Smith Amdt. No. 510 as Modified; To provide for the consideration of an increase in the tobacco products user fee rate, but only to the extent that such rate increase does not result in an increase of more than 61 cents per pack of cigarettes, with all revenue generated by such increase dedicated to the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 104: On the Motion: Motion to Waive CBA Re: Allard Amendment No. 521; To improve the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Federal programs and reduce the Federal debt by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 103: S CON RES 21: Hatch Amdt. No. 508; To establish a reserve fund for protecting coverage choices, additional benefits, and lower cost-sharing for Medicare beneficiaries. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 102: S CON RES 21: Kyl Amdt. No. 583; To reform the death tax by setting the exemption at $5 million per estate, indexed for inflation, and the top death tax rate at no more than 35% beginning in 2010; to avoid subjecting an estimated 119,200 families, family businesses, and family farms to the death tax each and every year; to promote continued economic growth and job creation; and to make the enhanced teacher deduction permanent. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 101: S CON RES 21: Nelson (NE) Amdt. No. 626; To reform the estate tax to avoid subjecting thousands of families, family businesses, and family farms and ranches to the estate tax, and to promote continued economic growth and job creation. | No | No | No | |
| Vote 100: S CON RES 21: Sessions Amdt. No. 473; To save families from the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) first by permitting a deduction for personal exemptions for purposes of computing the AMT. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 99: S CON RES 21: DeMint Amdt. No. 513; To provide for true deficit reduction in appropriation bills. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 98: S CON RES 21: Coleman Amdt. No. 577; To provide budget levels to extend through 2012 the production tax credit for electricity produced from renewable resources, the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, and energy tax provisions for energy efficient buildings and power plants. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 97: S CON RES 21: Conrad Amdt. No. 598; To create a deficit-neutral reserve fund for extending certain energy tax incentives. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 96: S CON RES 21: Thomas Amdt. No. 498; To strike the reserve funds. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 95: S CON RES 21: Enzi Amendment No. 497; To establish a 60-vote point of order for legislation that creates unfunded mandates on small business concerns. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 94: S CON RES 21: Sanders Amdt. No. 545 as Modified; To restore the top marginal tax rate to pre-2001 levels on taxable income in excess of $1 million and use the increased revenue to increase funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Act. | No | No | Yes | |
| Vote 93: S CON RES 21: Ensign Amdt. No. 472; To require wealthy Medicare beneficiaries to pay a greater share of their Medicare Part D premiums. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 92: S CON RES 21: Cornyn Amdt. No. 525 as Modified; To provide reconciliation instructions of $33.8 billion to make provider payments more accurate, to improve Medicare Part B income relation provisions, expand those provisions to Medicare Part D and reduce the deficit. | No | No | No | |
| Vote 91: S CON RES 21: Cornyn Amdt. No. 511; To provide a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that will cover kids first. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 90: S CON RES 21: Allard Amdt. No. 491; To pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending on programs rated ineffective by the Program Assessment Rating Tool. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 89: S CON RES 21: DeMint Amdt. No. 489; To establish a reserve fund for Social Security. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 88: S CON RES 21: Bingaman Amdt. No. 486; To provide additional funding resources in FY2008 for investments in innovation and education in order to improve the competitiveness of the United States. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 87: S CON RES 21: Bunning Amdt. No. 483; To provide a point of order against any budget resolution that fails to achieve an on-budget balance within 5 years. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vote 86: S CON RES 21: Ensign Amdt. No. 476; To ensure that our troops serving in harms way remain Americas top budget priority by ensuring full funding for the Department of Defense within the regular appropriations process, reducing reliance on supplemental appropriations bills, and by improving the integrity of the Congressional budget process. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 85: S CON RES 21: Sessions Amdt. 466 as Modified; To exclude the extension of tax relief provided in 2001 and 2003 from points of order provided in the resolution and other budget points of order. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 84: S CON RES 21: Cornyn Amdt. No. 477; To provide for a budget point of order against legislation that increases income taxes on taxpayers, including hard-working middle-income families, entrepreneurs, and college students. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 83: S CON RES 21: Kyl Amdt. No. 507; To protect families, family farms and small businesses by raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%, to extend college tuition deduction, to extend the student loan interest deduction, to extend the teacher classroom deduction, to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, to maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and to promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Vote 82: S CON RES 21: Baucus Amdt. No. 492; To provide tax relief to middle class families and small businesses and to expand health insurance coverage for children. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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