Senate Roll Call 453, 112th Congress · December 3, 2012
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 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, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 expansion”
model(0.90): Advancing defense authorization bill supports military funding and expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Advancing authorization of military defense appropriations increases fiscal 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.
Yea (93)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Kelly Ayotte
- John Barrasso
- Max Baucus
- Mark Begich
- Michael F. Bennet
- Jeff Bingaman
- Richard Blumenthal
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Barbara Boxer
- Scott P. Brown
- Sherrod Brown
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Daniel Coats
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Christopher A. Coons
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Kay R. Hagan
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Dean Heller
- John Hoeven
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Mike Johanns
- Ron Johnson
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Mike Lee
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Joe Manchin, III
- John McCain
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Rand Paul
- Rob Portman
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Marco Rubio
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Patrick J. Toomey
- Mark Udall
- Tom Udall
- Mark R. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (7)
- Al FrankenDid not vote
- Mark KirkDid not vote
- Jeff MerkleyDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
- Bernard SandersDid not vote
- David VitterDid not vote
- Ron WydenDid not vote
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