Senate Roll Call 518, 115th Congress · August 23, 2018
A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passing defense appropriations increases federal spending.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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)
- 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
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tom Cotton
- Steve Daines
- Joe Donnelly
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Joni Ernst
- Dianne Feinstein
- Cory Gardner
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Kamala D. Harris
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Martin Heinrich
- Heidi Heitkamp
- Dean Heller
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Ron Johnson
- Doug Jones
- Tim Kaine
- John Kennedy
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- James Lankford
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joe Manchin, III
- Edward J. Markey
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Christopher Murphy
- Bill Nelson
- David Perdue
- Gary C. Peters
- Rob Portman
- Jack Reed
- Pat Roberts
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Ben Sasse
- Charles E. Schumer
- Tim Scott
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Dan Sullivan
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Tom Udall
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Elizabeth Warren
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
- Todd Young
Not voting or present (8)
- Bob CorkerDid not vote
- John CornynDid not vote
- Ted CruzDid not vote
- Deb FischerDid not vote
- Mazie K. HironoDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Patty MurrayDid not vote
- Brian SchatzDid not vote
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