Senate · Roll call 503 · 119th Congress, session 1

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

On the Motion to Proceed: Motion to Proceed Agreed to 83–13 on Sep 4, 2025. 13 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 1/2
Yea
83
Nay
13
Present
0
Not voting: 4

Sep 4, 2025 · Procedural

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. S. 2296 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
    Passed one chamber· Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)· Armed Forces and National Security· Nov 12, 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.

Split by party

Yea on the left, nay on the right, scaled to each party's members.

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats341100
Independents1100
Republicans48104
Total831304

Seat chart

One seat per member, colored by their recorded position; outlined seats voted against their party's majority. Seats are grouped by party and ordered by DW-NOMINATE (Analisa's layout: House members have no assigned seats).

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) · NayCory A. Booker (D-NJ) · NayEdward J. Markey (D-MA) · NayMazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · YeaTammy Baldwin (D-WI) · NayJon Ossoff (D-GA) · YeaAngela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD) · YeaJeff Merkley (D-OR) · NayKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · YeaRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · YeaAlex Padilla (D-CA) · NayBrian Schatz (D-HI) · NayRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · YeaAndy Kim (D-NJ) · YeaTina Smith (D-MN) · NayChris Van Hollen (D-MD) · NayPeter Welch (D-VT) · NayLisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) · YeaBen Ray Luján (D-NM) · YeaElissa Slotkin (D-MI) · YeaJack Reed (D-RI) · YeaPatty Murray (D-WA) · YeaRuben Gallego (D-AZ) · YeaCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · YeaAdam B. Schiff (D-CA) · YeaTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · YeaCatherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · YeaSheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · YeaRichard J. Durbin (D-IL) · YeaRon Wyden (D-OR) · NayMartin Heinrich (D-NM) · YeaMaria Cantwell (D-WA) · YeaJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · YeaChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · YeaJacky Rosen (D-NV) · YeaAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · YeaMark Kelly (D-AZ) · YeaGary C. Peters (D-MI) · YeaMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · YeaChristopher A. Coons (D-DE) · YeaTim Kaine (D-VA) · YeaMargaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · YeaJeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · YeaMark R. Warner (D-VA) · YeaJohn Fetterman (D-PA) · YeaBernard Sanders (I-VT) · NayAngus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) · YeaSusan M. Collins (R-ME) · YeaLisa Murkowski (R-AK) · YeaShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · Not votingMike Rounds (R-SD) · YeaChuck Grassley (R-IA) · YeaLindsey Graham (R-SC) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · YeaThom Tillis (R-NC) · YeaKevin Cramer (R-ND) · YeaMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · YeaJerry Moran (R-KS) · YeaJohn Boozman (R-AR) · YeaJohn Thune (R-SD) · YeaTodd Young (R-IN) · YeaPete Ricketts (R-NE) · YeaCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · YeaJohn R. Curtis (R-UT) · YeaDeb Fischer (R-NE) · YeaDan Sullivan (R-AK) · YeaBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · YeaMarkwayne Mullin (R-OK) · YeaJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · YeaJames E. Risch (R-ID) · YeaJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · YeaJames C. Justice (R-WV) · YeaTom Cotton (R-AR) · YeaKatie Boyd Britt (R-AL) · YeaJon Husted (R-OH) · YeaSteve Daines (R-MT) · YeaJames Lankford (R-OK) · YeaDavid McCormick (R-PA) · YeaRoger Marshall (R-KS) · YeaTim Scott (R-SC) · Not votingMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · Not votingTed Budd (R-NC) · YeaTim Sheehy (R-MT) · YeaRon Johnson (R-WI) · YeaJim Banks (R-IN) · YeaBill Hagerty (R-TN) · Not votingCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · YeaAshley Moody (R-FL) · YeaBernie Moreno (R-OH) · YeaRick Scott (R-FL) · YeaTed Cruz (R-TX) · YeaJosh Hawley (R-MO) · YeaRand Paul (R-KY) · NayEric Schmitt (R-MO) · YeaMike Lee (R-UT) · YeaTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · YeaMotion to Proceed Agreed to83–13
Yea 83Nay 13Not voting 4Voted against their party

Voted against their party

Members who voted yea or nay against most of their party's voting members.

How each member voted

Recorded positions, by party and then position. Highlighted names voted against the majority of their party's voting members.

Democrats · 45

Yea · 34

Nay · 11

Independents · 2

Yea · 1

Nay · 1

Republicans · 53

Yea · 48

Nay · 1

Not voting · 4

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll calls via Voteview, from the official Senate record.
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • The seat chart groups members by party (Analisa's layout); it is not a floor plan.