Thursday, April 11, 2013

List of How Members Voted: Senate Overcomes Filibuster On Motion To Proceed On Senate Gun Bill

By Susan Duclos

[Update added below the original post with a list of Senate seats on the Ballot in the 2014 midterms where the Senators cast a yes vote on the motion to proceed with the Senate's gun control bill.]

[Update #2]  Senate Gun Control Bill S.649 Embedded here.


The motion to proceed on the Senate gun control bill has passed with a vote of 68-31, below is a list of members who voted to proceed and those that voted against it.

Those listed in red are the Republicans that joined with Democrats to proceed to debate.

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---68
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)

Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Collins (R-ME)

Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Cowan (D-MA)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Flake (R-AZ)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)

Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---31
Barrasso (R-WY)
Begich (D-AK)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Not Voting - 1
Lautenberg (D-NJ)




Within this gun control Senate bill S.649, is language which turns ordinary gun owners into felons.

NRO explains:

You can make a “bona fide gift” (but not a three-hour loan) to certain close family members, not including aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, in-laws, or civil-union partners.

You can let someone else borrow your gun for up to seven days, but only within your home or its curtilage (e.g., the porch or deck).

You cannot lend your gun to someone on any open space you own. And even your husband can’t borrow your gun for more than seven days.

You can share a gun at a shooting range, but only if the shooting range is owned by a corporation — not if it’s on public lands or on your own property.

You can share a gun while out hunting in the field. But back at the hunting camp, you can’t clean someone else’s gun.

This is not “gun control” in the constitutionally legitimate sense: reasonable laws that protect public safety without interfering with the responsible ownership and use of firearms.

The saving grace for Second Amendment supporters, as explained by The Hill, is the GOP controlled House of Representatives:

Any new gun restrictions are likely to face significant, if not wholesale, opposition among House Republicans.

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[Update] List of Senate seats on the Ballot in the 2014 midterms where the Senators cast a yes vote on the motion to proceed with the Senate's gun control bill.

Mark Udall (D-CO)
Chris Coons (D-DE)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Brian Schatz (D-HI)-Special Election
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)---Retiring
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Mo Cowan (D-MA)
Carl Levin (D-MI)--- Retiring
Al Franken (D-MN)
Max Baucus (D-MT)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Tom Udall (D-NM)
Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)---Retiring
Lamar Alexande r(R-TN)
Mark Warner (D-VA)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)---Retiring