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Senate Roll Call 214, 112th Congress · December 1, 2011

To limit the authority of the Armed Forces to detain citizens of the United States under section 1031.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

45 yea · 55 nayAmendment Rejected
Democrat39 yea · 11 nay
Republican5 yea · 42 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1867

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Limiting military authority to detain U.S. citizens is military restraint.

    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.

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