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Senate Roll Call 720, 116th Congress · January 1, 2021

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 Overriding the Veto

81 yea · 13 nayVeto Overridden6 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 5 nay
Republican40 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): Overriding veto enacts defense authorization bill into law.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Overriding veto enacts military spending authorization into law.

    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 (81)

Nay (13)

Not voting or present (6)

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