Senate · Roll call 647 · 119th Congress, session 1

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

On the Cloture Motion: Cloture Motion Agreed to 76–20 on Dec 15, 2025. 20 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
76
Nay
20
Present
0
Not voting: 4

Dec 15, 2025 · Cloture

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. S. 1071 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
    Became law· John Cornyn (R-TX)· Armed Forces and National Security· Dec 18, 2025

A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of Fernando V. Cota from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas, and for other purposes.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats271602
Independents1100
Republicans48302
Total762004

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) · YeaJon Ossoff (D-GA) · YeaAngela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD) · YeaJeff Merkley (D-OR) · NayKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · YeaRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · Not votingAlex Padilla (D-CA) · NayBrian Schatz (D-HI) · NayRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · YeaAndy Kim (D-NJ) · NayTina 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) · NayRuben Gallego (D-AZ) · YeaCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · YeaAdam B. Schiff (D-CA) · Not votingTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · NayCatherine 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) · NayJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · YeaChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · NayJacky Rosen (D-NV) · YeaAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · YeaMark Kelly (D-AZ) · YeaGary C. Peters (D-MI) · YeaMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · NayChristopher 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) · YeaMike 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) · Not votingJohn 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) · Not votingJohn 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) · YeaMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · YeaTed Budd (R-NC) · YeaTim Sheehy (R-MT) · YeaRon Johnson (R-WI) · YeaJim Banks (R-IN) · YeaBill Hagerty (R-TN) · YeaCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · YeaAshley Moody (R-FL) · YeaBernie Moreno (R-OH) · YeaRick Scott (R-FL) · YeaTed Cruz (R-TX) · NayJosh Hawley (R-MO) · YeaRand Paul (R-KY) · NayEric Schmitt (R-MO) · YeaMike Lee (R-UT) · NayTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · YeaCloture Motion Agreed to76–20
Yea 76Nay 20Not 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 · 27

Nay · 16

Not voting · 2

Independents · 2

Yea · 1

Nay · 1

Republicans · 53

Yea · 48

Nay · 3

Not voting · 2

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 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 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.