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Senate Roll Call 191, 118th Congress · July 19, 2023

To express the sense of Congress that Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty does not supersede the constitutional requirement that Congress declare war before the United States engages in war.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

16 yea · 83 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 47 nay
Republican16 yea · 32 nay
Independent0 yea · 4 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2226 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024

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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Reasserting congressional war declaration requirements limits unilateral executive military action.

    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 (16)

Nay (83)

Not voting or present (1)

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