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Senate Roll Call 625, 109th Congress · September 28, 2006

A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

65 yea · 34 nayBill Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 32 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3930 ↗

Military Commissions Act of 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.90): Authorizing military commissions for law of war violations expands executive military judicial power.

    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 (65)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (1)

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