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Last Updated:6/26/00
How They Voted: Comparing Votes on the Wellstone and Gorton Amendments, June 21, 2000
(The Wellstone amendment would have transferred $225 million in military aid to domestic drug treatment.)

(The Gorton amendment would have cut the entire Colombia aid package down to $200 million.)

7 members voted for both the Wellstone and Gorton amendments:

5 Democrats:

  1. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
  2. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
  3. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
  4. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
  5. Patty Murray (D-WA)

2 Republicans:

  1. Rod Grams (R-MN)
  2. Arlen Specter (R-PA)

77 members voted for neither the Wellstone nor the Gorton amendments:

35 Democrats:

  1. Daniel Kahikina Akaka (D-HI)
  2. Max Baucus (D-MT)
  3. B. Evan Bayh (D-IN)
  4. Joseph Biden (D-DE)
  5. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
  6. John Breaux (D-LA)
  7. Richard Bryan (D-NV)
  8. Joseph Maxwell Cleland (D-GA)
  9. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
  10. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)
  11. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
  12. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
  13. John Edwards (D-NC)
  14. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
  15. Bob Graham (D-FL)
  16. Ernest Hollings (D-SC)
  17. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) (Did not vote on the Gorton amendment)
  18. Tim P. Johnson (D-SD)
  19. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
  20. J. Robert Kerrey (D-NE)
  21. John Forbes Kerry (D-MA)
  22. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
  23. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
  24. Carl Levin (D-MI)
  25. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)
  26. Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR)
  27. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)
  28. John F. 'Jack' Reed (D-RI)
  29. Harry Reid (D-NV)
  30. Charles Robb (D-VA)
  31. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
  32. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
  33. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
  34. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ)
  35. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

42 Republicans:

  1. Spencer Abraham (R-MI)
  2. John Ashcroft (R-MO)
  3. Robert Bennett (R-UT)
  4. Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO)
  5. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
  6. Jim Bunning (R-KY)
  7. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
  8. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO)
  9. Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI)
  10. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
  11. Paul Coverdell (R-GA)
  12. Mike DeWine (R-OH)
  13. Pete Domenici (R-NM) (Did not vote on the Gorton amendment)
  14. Bill Frist (R-TN)
  15. Charles Grassley (R-IA)
  16. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
  17. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
  18. Jesse Helms (R-NC)
  19. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
  20. James Inhofe (R-OK)
  21. Jim Jeffords (R-VT)
  22. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
  23. Trent Lott (R-MS)
  24. Richard Lugar (R-IN)
  25. Connie Mack (R-FL)
  26. John McCain (R-AZ)
  27. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
  28. Frank Murkowski (R-AK)
  29. Don Nickles (R-OK)
  30. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
  31. William Roth (R-DE)
  32. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
  33. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
  34. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
  35. Robert Smith (R-NH)
  36. Gordon H. Smith (R-OR)
  37. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
  38. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
  39. Fred Thompson (R-TN)
  40. Strom Thurmond (R-SC)
  41. George Victor Voinovich (R-OH)
  42. John Warner (R-VA)

4 voted for the Wellstone and against the Gorton amendments:

4 Democrats:

  1. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
  2. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
  3. Russ Feingold (D-WI)
  4. Paul David Wellstone (D-MN)

0 Republicans

12 voted against the Wellstone and for the Gorton amendments:

1 Democrat:

  1. Herbert Kohl (D-WI)

11 Republicans:

  1. Wayne Allard (R-CO)
  2. Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
  3. Larry Craig (R-ID)
  4. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
  5. Michael Enzi (R-WY)
  6. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL)
  7. Slade Gorton (R-WA)
  8. Phil Gramm (R-TX)
  9. Judd Gregg (R-NH)
  10. Tim Hutchinson (R-AR)
  11. Craig Thomas (R-WY)
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