Senate Roll Call 399, 116th Congress · December 17, 2019
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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 Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
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): Authorizing defense spending and military programs expands the military.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Authorizing defense appropriations represents fiscal 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 (82)
- Lamar Alexander
- Tammy Baldwin
- John Barrasso
- Michael F. Bennet
- Marsha Blackburn
- Richard Blumenthal
- Roy Blunt
- John Boozman
- Sherrod Brown
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- John Cornyn
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tom Cotton
- Kevin Cramer
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Joni Ernst
- Dianne Feinstein
- Deb Fischer
- Cory Gardner
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Josh Hawley
- Martin Heinrich
- Mazie K. Hirono
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- James M. Inhofe
- Doug Jones
- Tim Kaine
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- James Lankford
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joe Manchin, III
- Mitch McConnell
- Martha McSally
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- David Perdue
- Gary C. Peters
- Rob Portman
- Jack Reed
- James E. Risch
- Pat Roberts
- Jacky Rosen
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Ben Sasse
- Brian Schatz
- Charles E. Schumer
- Rick Scott
- Tim Scott
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Richard C. Shelby
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Dan Sullivan
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Tom Udall
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Todd Young
Nay (12)
Not voting or present (6)
- Cory A. BookerDid not vote
- Kamala D. HarrisDid not vote
- Johnny IsaksonDid not vote
- Amy KlobucharDid not vote
- Bernard SandersDid not vote
- Elizabeth WarrenDid not vote
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