START Treaty Senate vote


U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 2nd Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Resolution of Ratification (Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification As Amended (Treaty Doc. 111-5) )

Vote Number: 298

Vote Date: December 22, 2010, 02:33 PM

Required For Majority: 2/3

Vote result: Resolution of Ratification Agreed to

Treaty Number: Treaty Doc. 111-5

Treaty Title: Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, with Protocol

Vote Counts:

Yeas 71

Nays 26

Not Voting 3

Grouped By Vote Position

Yeas 71

Akaka (D-HI)
01) Alexander (Republican-Tennessee)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
02) Bennett (Republican-Utah)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
03) Brown (Republican-Massachusetts up for reelection in 2012)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
04) Cochran (Republican-Mississippi)
05) Susan Collins (Republican-Maine up for reelection in 2014)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
06) Corker (Republican-Tennessee)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
07) Gregg (Republican-New Hampshire)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
08) Isakson (Republican-Georgia)
09) Johanns (Republican-Nebraska)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
10) Lugar (Republican-Indiana)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
11) Lisa Murkowski (Republican-Alaska up for reelection in 2016)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
12) Olympia Snowe (Republican-Maine up for reelection in 2012)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
13) George Voinovich (Republican-Ohio up for reelection in 2016)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Nays 26

Barrasso (R-WY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kirk (R-IL)
Kyl (R-AZ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting 3

Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)

ALL Democrats voted for the START Treaty!

Republican Senators who voted for both the repeal of Don’t Asked, Don’t Tell and the START Treaty

1) Scott Brown (Republican-Massachusetts up for reelection in 2012)
2) Olympia Snowe (Republican-Maine up for reelection in 2012)

3) Susan Collins (Republican-Maine up for reelection in 2014)

4) Lisa Murkowski (Republican-Alaska up for reelection in 2016)
5) George Voinovich (Republican-Ohio up for reelection in 2016)

Republican Senators who voted for the repeal of Don’t Asked, Don’t Tell but did not vote for the START Treaty

1) John Ensign (Republican-Nevada up for reelection in 2012)

2) Richard Burr (Republican-North Carolina up for reelection in 2016)
3) Mark Kirk (Republican-Illinois up for reelection in 2016)

Republican Senators who did not vote for the repeal of Don’t Asked, Don’t Tell but did vote for the START Treaty

1) Robert Bennett (Republican-Utah defeated in the 2010 primary—a true lame duck Senator)
2) Judd Gregg (Republican-New Hampshire retired from the Senate in 2010—a true lame duck Senator)

3) Bob Corker (Republican-Tennessee up for reelection in 2012)
4) Richard Lugar (Republican-Indiana up for reelection in 2012)

5) Lamar Alexander (Republican-Tennessee up for reelection in 2014)
6) Thad Cochran (Republican-Mississippi up for reelection in 2014)
7) Mike Johanns (Republican-Nebraska up for reelection in 2014)

8) Johnny Isakson (Republican-Georgia up for reelection in 2016)