Mitt Romney on Defense & War Powers

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Defense & War Powers65 votes · 88.6/100 consistent

Military restraintMilitary expansion

114 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Defense & War Powers. 65 of them counted toward the score above: 57 toward “Military expansion” and 8 toward “Military restraint”.

The other 49 did not count: 48 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 1 was one 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
2019-12-17	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Military restraint
2019-12-16	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Military expansion
2019-12-11	A bill to direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an assessment of the responsibilities, workload, and vacancy rates of Department of Veterans Affairs suicide prevention coordinators, and for other purposes.H.R. 2333 · 116th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2019-09-18	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Military expansion
2019-06-28	To prohibit unauthorized military operations in or against Iran.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Military expansion
2019-06-27	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Military expansion
2019-06-27	To provide that funds authorized by the Act are available for the defense of the Armed Forces and United States citizens against attack by foreign hostile forces.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Military expansion
2019-06-27	In the nature of a substitute.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2019-06-24	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Military expansion
2019-06-19	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.S. 1790 · 116th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Military expansion
2019-05-02	A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.S.J.Res. 7 · 116th Congress · On Overriding the Veto	Nay	Military expansion
2019-03-13	A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.S.J.Res. 7 · 116th Congress · On the Joint Resolution	Nay	Military expansion
2019-02-04	To express the sense of the Senate that the United States faces continuing threats from terrorist groups operating in Syria and Afghanistan and that the precipitous withdrawal of United States forces from either country could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.S. 1 · 116th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Military expansion
2019-01-31	To express the sense of the Senate that the United States faces continuing threats from terrorist groups operating in Syria and Afghanistan and that the precipitous withdrawal of United States forces from either country could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.S. 1 · 116th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Military expansion

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.