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Senate Roll Call 453, 115th Congress · June 18, 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 Passage of the Bill

85 yea · 10 nayBill Passed5 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 7 nay
Republican46 yea · 2 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5515 ↗

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): Passing the NDAA authorizes military activities and 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): Passing the NDAA authorizes major defense spending expansion.

    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 (85)

Nay (10)

Not voting or present (5)

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