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Senate Roll Call 448, 112th Congress · November 29, 2012

To clarify that an authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

67 yea · 29 nayAmendment Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 2 nay
Republican20 yea · 25 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 3254 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

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): Restricting military detention authority over citizens limits executive war powers.

    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 (67)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (4)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.