Senate Roll Call 500, 119th Congress · September 2, 2025
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
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): Advancing defense authorization bill supports military funding and activities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Advancing defense authorization bill authorizes federal spending.
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 (84)
- Angela D. Alsobrooks
- Jim Banks
- John Barrasso
- Michael F. Bennet
- Marsha Blackburn
- Richard Blumenthal
- Lisa Blunt Rochester
- John Boozman
- Katie Boyd Britt
- Ted Budd
- Maria Cantwell
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Bill Cassidy
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- John Cornyn
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tom Cotton
- Kevin Cramer
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- John R. Curtis
- Steve Daines
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Joni Ernst
- John Fetterman
- Deb Fischer
- Ruben Gallego
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Bill Hagerty
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Josh Hawley
- Martin Heinrich
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Mazie K. Hirono
- John Hoeven
- Jon Husted
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- Ron Johnson
- James C. Justice
- Tim Kaine
- Mark Kelly
- Andy Kim
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- James Lankford
- Mike Lee
- Ben Ray Luján
- Cynthia M. Lummis
- Roger Marshall
- Mitch McConnell
- David McCormick
- Ashley Moody
- Jerry Moran
- Bernie Moreno
- Markwayne Mullin
- Lisa Murkowski
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Jon Ossoff
- Gary C. Peters
- Jack Reed
- Pete Ricketts
- James E. Risch
- Jacky Rosen
- Mike Rounds
- Adam B. Schiff
- Eric Schmitt
- Charles E. Schumer
- Rick Scott
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Tim Sheehy
- Elissa Slotkin
- Dan Sullivan
- John Thune
- Tommy Tuberville
- Mark R. Warner
- Raphael G. Warnock
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Todd Young
Nay (14)
Not voting or present (2)
- Tim ScottDid not vote
- Thom TillisDid not vote
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