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Senate Roll Call 692, 116th Congress · December 11, 2020

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 Conference Report

84 yea · 13 nayConference Report Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 5 nay
Republican43 yea · 7 nay
Independent3 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6395

William M. (Mac) Thornberry 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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.95): Agreeing to defense conference report advances military spending and authority.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Agreeing to defense conference report advances fiscal spending authorization.

    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.

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.