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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 447, 108th Congress · November 12, 2003

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report

95 yea · 3 nayConference Report Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 2 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1588 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.95): Approving the defense authorization conference report expands military authority and funding.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Approving the defense authorization conference report authorizes federal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (95)

Nay (3)

Not voting or present (2)

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