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House Roll Call 356, 114th Congress · June 11, 2015

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage

278 yea · 149 nayPassed6 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 144 nay
Republican235 yea · 4 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2685 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016

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): Passing defense appropriations funds and maintains military operations.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Passing an appropriations bill authorizes federal expenditure.

    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 (278)

Nay (149)

Not voting or present (6)

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.