Senate Roll Call 434, 114th Congress · June 9, 2016

To authorize parity for defense and nondefense spending pursuant to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

43 yea · 55 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present

Democrat40 yea · 2 nay

Republican2 yea · 52 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2943 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017

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(0.85): Authorizing parity for defense spending raises defense spending limits, expanding military funding.
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.

Yea (43)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (2)

Bernard SandersDid not vote
Mark R. WarnerDid not vote

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