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Senate Roll Call 203, 114th Congress · June 4, 2015

To revise the definition of spouse for purposes of veterans benefits in recognition of new State definitions of spouse.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

53 yea · 42 nayAmendment Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 0 nay
Republican8 yea · 42 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1735

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Revising spouse definitions for veterans benefits does not align with military expansion or 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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