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Senate Roll Call 312, 109th Congress · November 9, 2005

To ensure by law the ability of the military service academies to include the offering of a voluntary, nondenominational prayer as an element of their activities.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

99 yea · 0 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican54 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1042 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Prayer at service academies is a social issue, not a military expansion or restraint issue.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

Yea (99)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (1)

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