"Please read the damn bill" Finale: NDAA Conference Report Passage
The Senate just voted for final passage for the NDAA conference report (H.R. 1540). The vote was overwhelming: 86-to-13. All seven senators who voted against the Senate version earlier this month (S.1867) also voted against the conference report. Six additional senators, made up of three Republicans and three Democrats, voted against passage. The full list is below.
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The Senate just voted for final passage for the NDAA conference report (H.R. 1540). The vote was overwhelming: 86-to-13. All seven senators who voted against the Senate version earlier this month (S.1867) also voted against the conference report. Six additional senators, made up of three Republicans and three Democrats, voted against passage. The full list is below. An asterisk (*) indicates that they also voted against the Senate version.
The House passed the conference version of the NDAA yesterday evening. For the Congress nerds among us, the motion to recommit the bill failed in a 183-234 vote. Sixteen Congressmen and women did not vote, and all but one Democrat voted in favor of recommitting the bill. The final passage was 283-136, with the Democrats split 93-93 (excluding those who did not vote, of course) in the roll call, and 14 members of Congress not voting.
The House passed its original bill on May 26th, on a 322-96 vote. A number of Members changed their votes:
52 Representatives voted aye on the original bill, and then voted nay on the conference report. The Democrats who switched their votes are:
The Republicans who switched to a no vote are:
Twelve Democrats switched from a No in May to an Aye on the conference report:
| Cardin (D-MD) |
| Coburn (R-OK)* |
| Crapo (R-ID) |
| DeMint (R-SC) |
| Durbin (D-IL) |
| Franken (D-MN) |
| Harkin (D-IA)* |
| Lee (R-UT)* |
| Merkley (D-OR)* |
| Paul (R-KY)* |
| Risch (R-ID) |
| Sanders (I-VT)* |
| Wyden (D-OR)* |
| D | Carson (IN) |
| D | Clarke (NY) |
| D | Costello |
| D | Cummings |
| D | Hastings (FL) |
| D | Heinrich |
| D | Hinojosa |
| D | Johnson (GA) |
| D | Kaptur |
| D | Meeks |
| D | Miller (NC) |
| D | Moran |
| D | Peters |
| D | Ryan (OH) |
| D | Scott (VA) |
| D | Towns |
| R | Bucshon | R | Jones | |
| R | Burgess | R | Labrador | |
| R | Burton (IN) | R | Lummis | |
| R | Coffman (CO) | R | Mack | |
| R | DesJarlais | R | Mulvaney | |
| R | Duncan (SC) | R | Pence | |
| R | Forbes | R | Posey | |
| R | Garrett | R | Ribble | |
| R | Goodlatte | R | Roe (TN) | |
| R | Gosar | R | Rohrabacher | |
| R | Gowdy | R | Rokita | |
| R | Graves (GA) | R | Royce | |
| R | Griffith (VA) | R | Schweikert | |
| R | Harris | R | Simpson | |
| R | Huelskamp | R | Stutzman | |
| R | Huizenga (MI) | R | Tipton | |
| R | Hurt | R | Walberg | |
| R | Johnson (IL) | R | Walsh (IL) | |
| R | Woodall |
| D | Ackerman |
| D | Berman |
| D | Capps |
| D | Cicilline |
| D | Crowley |
| D | Himes |
| D | Hirono |
| D | Keating |
| D | Larson (CT) |
| D | Pastor (AZ) |
| D | Schrader |
| D | Sherman |
| D | Waxman |
Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT.
Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.
