Senate Roll Call 451, 115th Congress · June 14, 2018
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
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(0.95): Cloture advances the defense authorization bill, supporting military expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Cloture advances a major defense spending authorization bill.
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 (81)
- Lamar Alexander
- Tammy Baldwin
- John Barrasso
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Roy Blunt
- Cory A. Booker
- John Boozman
- Sherrod Brown
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Bill Cassidy
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- John Cornyn
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tom Cotton
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Joe Donnelly
- Michael B. Enzi
- Joni Ernst
- Deb Fischer
- Cory Gardner
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Martin Heinrich
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Dean Heller
- Mazie K. Hirono
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Doug Jones
- Tim Kaine
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- James Lankford
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Lisa Murkowski
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- David Perdue
- Gary C. Peters
- Rob Portman
- Jack Reed
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Ben Sasse
- Brian Schatz
- Charles E. Schumer
- Tim Scott
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Dan Sullivan
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Patrick J. Toomey
- Tom Udall
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Todd Young
Nay (15)
Not voting or present (4)
- Tammy DuckworthDid not vote
- Joe Manchin, IIIDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Jerry MoranDid not vote
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