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Senate Roll Call 298, 114th Congress · November 5, 2015

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

Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

51 yea · 44 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 41 nay
Republican50 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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): Advancing defense appropriations expands military funding and programs.

    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 defense appropriations increases federal 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 (51)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (5)

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