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Senate Roll Call 230, 114th Congress · July 9, 2015

An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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 Motion

44 yea · 52 nayMotion Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican0 yea · 51 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.90): Authorizing defense activities and military personnel strengths expands military scope.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Authorizing defense appropriations expands federal spending commitments.

    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 (44)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (4)

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