Alex Padilla on Defense & War Powers

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Defense & War Powers53 votes · 24.5/100 consistent

Military restraintMilitary expansion

109 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Defense & War Powers. 53 of them counted toward the score above: 23 toward “Military expansion” and 30 toward “Military restraint”.

The other 56 did not count: 54 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 2 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2022-06-15	A bill to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes.H.R. 3967 · 117th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2022-06-15	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3967 · 117th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2022-06-13	A bill to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes.H.R. 3967 · 117th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2022-06-07	A bill to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes.H.R. 3967 · 117th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2021-12-15	A bill to designate the National Pulse Memorial located at 1912 South Orange Avenue in Orlando, Florida, and for other purposes.S. 1605 · 117th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2021-12-14	A bill to designate the National Pulse Memorial located at 1912 South Orange Avenue in Orlando, Florida, and for other purposes.S. 1605 · 117th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2021-11-29	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 4350 · 117th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2021-11-17	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.H.R. 4350 · 117th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Military expansion
2021-01-21	A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.H.R. 335 · 117th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Military restraint / Military expansion axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.