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2008 SENATE Voting Record

Vote descriptions are at the bottom of this page. If you don't know your Legislative District, or who your Senator is, click here. To send an e-mail to your Senator, click on his or her name.
You can also download a printable version (PDF) of the 2008 WSLC Voting Records.

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Don Benton R-17 ●

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Jean Berkey D-38 ●

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Dale Brandland R-42

 

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Lisa Brown D-3 ●

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Mike Carrell R-28

 

  

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Jerome Delvin R-8          

 

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Tracey Eide D-30 ●

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Darlene Fairley D-32 ●

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Rosa Franklin D-29 ●

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Karen Fraser D-22 ●

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Jim Hargrove D-24

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Brian Hatfield D-19 ●

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Mary Margaret Haugen D-10

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Mike Hewitt R-16                 0% 11%
Steve Hobbs D-44 ●

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Janιa Holmquist R-13             ●     10% 11%
Jim Honeyford R-15             ●     10% 5%
Ken Jacobsen D-46 ●

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Jim Kastama D-25 ●

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Claudia Kauffman D-47 ●

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Karen Keiser D-33 ●

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Derek Kilmer D-26 ●

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Curtis King R-14               ● ●   20% 20%
Adam Kline D-37 ●

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Jeanne Kohl-Welles D-36 ●

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Chris Marr D-6 ●

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Rosemary McAuliffe D-1 ●

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Bob McCaslin R-4           ●     10% 9%
Jim McDermott D-34 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 100% 99%
Bob Morton R-7             ●     10% 8%
Ed Murray D-43 ●

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Eric Oemig D-45 ●

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Linda Parlette R-12             ●     10% 13%
Cheryl Pflug R-5           ● ●   20% 21%
Margarita Prentice D-11 ●

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Craig Pridemore D-49 ●

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Marilyn Rasmussen D-2 ●

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Debbie Regala D-27 ●

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Pam Roach R-31

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Phil Rockefeller D-23 ●

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Mark Schoesler R-9             ●     10% 11%
Tim Sheldon D-35

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Paull Shin D-21 ●

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Harriet Spanel D-40 ●

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Val Stevens R-39             ●     10% 8%
Dan Swecker R-20  

 

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Rodney Tom D-48 ●

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Brian Weinstein D-41 ●

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Joseph Zarelli R-18             ●     10% 14%

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2008 Senate Vote Descriptions

  1. HB 2963 (final passage) — Extends Collective Bargaining Rights to research assistants and teaching assistants at Washington State University. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 34 - 15, March 4)

  2. SB 6751 (final passage) — Allowing individuals who left work to enter certain apprenticeship programs to receive unemployment insurance benefits. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 32 - 16, March 4)

  3. SB 5261 (final passage) — Granting the insurance commissioner the authority to review individual health benefit plan rates to ensure rate hikes are justified and reasonable. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 31 - 18, Jan. 30)

  4. SSB 6333 (final passage) — Establishing a citizens’ work group on health care to review proposed statewide plans and perform a cost analysis of those plans with the idea of providing comprehensive, affordable health care for all Washingtonians. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 31 - 17, Feb. 18)

  5. SB 6241 (final passage) — Prohibiting the sale or use of prescriber-identifiable prescription data by Pharmaceutical Companies for commercial or marketing purposes. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 26 - 22, Feb. 18)

  6. SSB 6809 (final passage) — Providing a tax exemption for working families measured by the federal earned income tax credit. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 32 - 16, Feb. 19)

  7. 2SHB 2815 (final passage) —Requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and establishes a green jobs initiative to increase the number of green economy jobs to 25,000 by 2020. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 29 - 19, March 5)

  8. HB 2893 (final passage) — Modifying the composition of the forest practices board to include a member from the labor community. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 48 - 1, March 5)

  9. SHB 3104 (final passage) — Expanding rights and responsibilities for domestic partnerships. "Right" vote: YES (Passed 29 - 20, March 4)

  10. E2SHB 3139 (final passage) — Ensuring that workers who have applied for and have been granted unemployment benefits because of injury or illness keep receiving those benefits during the appeal process initiated by an employer. "Right" vote: YES. (Passed 35-14, March 12)

Check back soon for information about these bills and issues and to see the 

2008 WSLC Legislative Report.

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