One day after declining to support tougher fuel-efficiency standards, the Senate yesterday voted down a measure that would have required 20 percent of the nation’s electricity to be produced from wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources by 2020. Currently, less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity comes from renewable resources. The measure that could have changed all that, which was sponsored by Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), was defeated by a disheartening 70 votes to 29. How did your senators vote on Amendment 3017? Odds are, badly — but see for yourself.
Amendment 3017
| Yeas | |
| Max Baucus (D-Mont.) | Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) |
| Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) | Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) |
| Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) | Susan Collins (R-Maine) |
| Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) | Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) |
| Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) | Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) |
| Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) | Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) |
| Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) | Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) |
| James Jeffords (I-Vt.) | Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) |
| John Kerry (D-Mass.) | Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) |
| Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) | Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) |
| Patty Murray (D-Wash.) | Jack Reed (D-R.I.) |
| Harry Reid (D-Nev.) | Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) |
| Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) | Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) |
| Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) | Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) |
| Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) | |
| Nays | |
| Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) | Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) |
| George Allen (R-Va.) | Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) |
| Robert Bennett (R-Utah) | Joseph Biden, Jr. (D-Del.) |
| Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) | Christopher Bond (R-Mo.) |
| John Breaux (D-La.) | Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) |
| Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) | Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) |
| Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) | Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) |
| Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.) | Thomas Carper (D-Del.) |
| Max Cleland (D-Ga.) | Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) |
| Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) | Larry Craig (R-Idaho) |
| Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) | Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) |
| Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) | Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) |
| Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) | John Edwards (D-N.C.) |
| John Ensign ( R-Nev.) | Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) |
| William Frist (R-Tenn.) | Bob Graham (D-Fla.) |
| Phil Gramm (R-Texas) | Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) |
| Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) | Charles Hagel (R-Neb.) |
| Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) | Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) |
| Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) | Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.) |
| Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) | James Inhofe (R-Okla.) |
| Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) | Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) |
| Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) | Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) |
| Mary Landrieu (D-La.) | Carl Levin (D-Mich.) |
| Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) | Trent Lott (R-Miss.) |
| Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) | John McCain (R-Ariz.) |
| Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) | Zell Miller (D-Ga.) |
| Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) | Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) |
| Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) | Don Nickles (R-Okla.) |
| Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) | John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) |
| Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) | Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) |
| Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) | Bob Smith (R-N.H.) |
| Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) | Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) |
| Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) | Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.) |
| Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) | Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) |
| George Voinovich (R-Ohio) | John Warner (R-Va.) |
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