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Senate Roll Call 14, 116th Congress · February 4, 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 Amendment

70 yea · 26 nayAmendment Agreed to4 not voting or present
Democrat21 yea · 21 nay
Republican46 yea · 4 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): Expresses support for maintaining US military deployment in Syria and Afghanistan.

    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 (70)

Nay (26)

Not voting or present (4)

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