To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 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, to provide special pays and allowances to certain members of the Armed Forces, expand concurrent receipt of military retirement and VA disability benefits to disabled military retirees, and for other purposes.

The measure

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 report expands military programs.

  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 defense authorization report increases authorized 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.