Who Voted For & Against the DREAM Act

Drew Angerer/NYT

How the Senate Voted -

NO Votes for the DREAM Act

Member	Party	State
Lamar Alexander	R	TN
John Barrasso	R	WY
Max Baucus	D	MT
Christopher S. Bond	R	MO
Scott Brown	R	MA
Sam Brownback	R	KS
Richard M. Burr	R	NC
Saxby Chambliss	R	GA
Tom Coburn	R	OK
Thad Cochran	R	MS
Susan Collins	R	ME
Bob Corker	R	TN
John Cornyn	R	TX
Michael D. Crapo	R	ID
Jim DeMint	R	SC
John Ensign	R	NV
Michael B. Enzi	R	WY
Lindsey Graham	R	SC
Charles E. Grassley	R	IA
Kay Hagan	D	NC
Kay Bailey Hutchison	R	TX
James M. Inhofe	R	OK
Johnny Isakson	R	GA
Mike Johanns	R	NE
Mark Steven Kirk	R	IL
Jon Kyl	R	AZ
George S. LeMieux	R	FL
John McCain	R	AZ
Mitch McConnell	R	KY
Ben Nelson	D	NE
Mark Pryor	D	AR
Jim Risch	R	ID
Pat Roberts	R	KS
Jeff Sessions	R	AL
Richard C. Shelby	R	AL
Olympia J. Snowe	R	ME
Jon Tester	D	MT
John Thune	R	SD
David Vitter	R	LA
George V. Voinovich	R	OH
Roger Wicker	R	MS

IImmigration Vote Leaves Obama’s Policy in Disarray

By JULIA PRESTON

Published: December 18, 2010 - NEW YORK TIMES

The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to an emerging movement of immigrants and also appeared to leave the immigration policy of the Obama administration, which has supported the bill and the movement, in disarray.

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