Senate Roll Call 13, 116th Congress · January 31, 2019

To express the sense of the Senate that the United States faces continuing threats from terrorist groups operating in Syria and Afghanistan and that the precipitous withdrawal of United States forces from either country could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

68 yea · 23 nayCloture Motion Agreed to9 not voting or present

Democrat22 yea · 19 nay

Republican43 yea · 3 nay

Independent3 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1 ↗

Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019

Policy area: International Affairs — 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): Opposes troop withdrawal, supporting continued military presence and expansion.
Tagged by: keyword:afghanistan
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 (68)

Nay (23)

Not voting or present (9)

Lamar AlexanderDid not vote
Roy BluntDid not vote
Sherrod BrownDid not vote
Richard J. DurbinDid not vote
Johnny IsaksonDid not vote
Jerry MoranDid not vote
Rand PaulDid not vote
David PerdueDid not vote
Dan SullivanDid not vote

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