Senate Roll Call 563, 116th Congress · July 22, 2020

To reduce the bloated Pentagon budget by 10 percent and invest that money in jobs, education, health care, and housing in communities in the United States in which the poverty rate is not less than 25 percent.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

23 yea · 77 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat22 yea · 21 nay

Republican0 yea · 53 nay

Independent1 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 4049 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021

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.

Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.90): Reallocating defense funds into health care expands health care investment.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.95): Cutting the defense budget by 10 percent reduces military spending.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
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 (23)

Nay (77)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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