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H.R. 3838: Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 · Congress Swing Tracker
H.R. 3838·119th Congress·Armed Forces and National Security
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
This bill sets forth policies and authorities for FY2026 for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, military construction, and the national security programs of the Department of Energy and the Maritime Administration. It also authorizes appropriations for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the Naval Petroleum Reserves, and modifies the defense acquisition system to expedite delivery of capabilities to the Armed Forces.
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Among other elements, the bill
authorizes the acquisition or modification of various military items (e.g., aircraft) and sets policy for certain procurement programs;
authorizes research, development, test, and evaluation and sets policy for such activities;
sets active component and reserve component end-strength levels;
sets policy regarding various aspects of military health care and military compensation;
sets policy regarding acquisitions and acquisition management, including contracting authorities and small businesses;
sets policy for various matters related to DOD interactions with foreign nations, including matters concerning Israel;
sets policy for various matters related to DOD cyber activities, cyber workforce and training, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence matters; and
authorizes the activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration, defense environmental cleanup, nuclear energy, and other defense activities.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
On PassagePassed231 yea, 196 naySeptember 10, 2025 · Roll call 262
How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote
VotedVoted yea or nay
BrokeBroke with party
Share
Swing
44
6
14%
Middle
216
8
4%
Entrenched
94
0
0%
Insufficient data
Committees and subjects
Committees
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Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional
: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
For additional information on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) see
CRS In Focus IF10516, Defense Primer: Navigating the NDAA
, and
CRS In Focus IF10515, Defense Primer: The NDAA Process
.
67
6
9%
All voting members
421
20
5%
: Pair any member who broke with one who stayed with their party: in 79% of those pairs, the one who broke had the higher swing score before the vote. Chance would be 50%.
Projections from swing-v3-dir, computed with data from before the vote. Present and not voting never count as breaking.
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Subjects
Accounting and auditing
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Alabama
Alaska
Alliances
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Appropriations
Arab-Israeli relations
Architecture
Arizona
Arkansas
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Armed Forces Retirement Home
Art, artists, authorship
Asia
Assault and harassment offenses
Atmospheric science and weather
Australia
Aviation and airports
Belarus
Belgium
Border security and unlawful immigration
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Building construction
California
Canada
Cancer
Caribbean area
Chemical and biological weapons
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
China
Collective security
Competition and antitrust
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Conflicts and wars
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional oversight
Connecticut
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Cuba
Data collection, sharing, protection
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Diego Garcia
Digital media
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Disaster relief and insurance
District of Columbia
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employee performance
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Europe
Executive agency funding and structure
Family planning and birth control
Family services
Federal officials
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Florida
Foreign aid and international relief
Georgia
Germany
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Greenland
Guam
Hawaii
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Housing industry and standards
Illinois
Indiana
Industrial facilities
Industrial policy and productivity
Infrastructure development
Insects
Intellectual property
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Internet, web applications, social media
Iowa
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Kansas
Kentucky
Labor market
Labor-management relations
Land transfers
Laos
Law enforcement administration and funding
Lawyers and legal services
Libraries and archives
Licensing and registrations
Louisiana
Maine
Manufacturing
Marine and inland water transportation
Maryland
Massachusetts
Materials
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Members of Congress
Mental health
Metals
Micronesia
Middle East
Military civil functions
Military command and structure
Military education and training
Military facilities and property
Military history
Military law
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Military readiness
Missing persons
Mississippi
Missouri
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicles
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
National Guard and reserves
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Neurological disorders
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York State
New Zealand
North America
North Carolina
North Korea
Norway
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Nutrition and diet
Oceania
Ohio
Oil and gas
Oklahoma
Oregon
Organized crime
Palau
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Poland
Pollution liability
Pornography
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Public-private cooperation
Puerto Rico
Racial and ethnic relations
Radioactive wastes and releases
Religion
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Retail and wholesale trades
Russia
Selective Service System
Service animals
Sex and reproductive health
Sex offenses
Small business
Solid waste and recycling
South Carolina
South Dakota
South Korea
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites
Spain
Special education
State and local government operations
Strategic materials and reserves
Student records
Supply chain
Syria
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Technology assessment
Technology transfer and commercialization
Telecommunication rates and fees
Tennessee
Terrorism
Texas
Trade secrets and economic espionage
Transportation costs
Transportation employees
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Utah
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Vietnam
Violent crime
Virginia
Wages and earnings
Washington State
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply
West Virginia
Women's employment
Women's health
Worker safety and health
Wyoming
· Lean D+4
On the ballot
Ideology gap
Scorecard gap
Cross-pressure
Similar votes
CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 15% of 53 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action
CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 2% of 53 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action
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Ideology vs. swing score, Senate
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Swing score
SWING ZONE 70+Entrenched below 30
← More liberalDW-NOMINATE ideology scoreMore conservative →
Ideology is each member’s score. The most moderate members of each party sit nearest the center line and highest on the chart.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the Senate: total similarity weight 45.5 (needs 5.0).
S. 1071 · Dec 17, 2025 · Roll call 648On the MotionA 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.
Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
S. 1071 · Dec 15, 2025 · Roll call 647On the Cloture MotionA 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.
Cloture Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
S. 1071 · Dec 11, 2025 · Roll call 646On the Motion to ProceedA 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.
Motion to Proceed Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 570On Passage of the BillAn 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.
Bill PassedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 569On the AmendmentTo limit the use of Federal law enforcement officers for crowd control, and for other purposes.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 568On the AmendmentTo reduce the bloated Pentagon budget by 10 percent and instead expand veteran dental care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 567On the AmendmentTo limit the provision of support by the Armed Forces to civilian law enforcement activities.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 566On the AmendmentTo amend title 32, United States Code, to clarify certain limitations on full-time National Guard duty performed in a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
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S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 565On the AmendmentTo prohibit the use of funds to procure or modify foreign aircraft for presidential airlift.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 564On the AmendmentTo require a review of the methodologies used to determine the amounts of locality-based comparability payments and to require the President's Pay Agent to conduct a pilot program establishing alternative models for determining the amounts of those payments.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 563On the AmendmentTo require Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation of the Inspector General of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 562
On the Amendment
To prohibit earnings on balances maintained at a Federal Reserve bank by or on behalf of a depository institution.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Sep 4, 2025 · Roll call 503On the Motion to ProceedAn 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.
Motion to Proceed Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
S. 2296 · Sep 2, 2025 · Roll call 500On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedAn 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.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 5009 · Dec 18, 2024 · Roll call 677On the MotionA bill to reauthorize wildlife habitat and conservation programs, and for other purposes.
Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 5009 · Dec 16, 2024 · Roll call 676On the Cloture MotionA bill to reauthorize wildlife habitat and conservation programs, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 2670 · Dec 13, 2023 · Roll call 343On the Conference ReportA bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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.
Conference Report Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 2670 · Dec 13, 2023 · Roll call 342On the MotionA bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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.
Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 2670 · Dec 12, 2023 · Roll call 341On the Cloture MotionA bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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.
Cloture Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 2670 · Dec 7, 2023 · Roll call 334On the Motion to ProceedA bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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.
Motion to Proceed Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 2670 · Nov 15, 2023 · Roll call 313On the MotionA bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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.
Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
S. 2226 · Jul 27, 2023 · Roll call 212On Passage of the BillAn original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 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.
Bill PassedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2226 · Jul 27, 2023 · Roll call 210On the AmendmentTo provide that sums in the Thrift Savings Fund may not be invested in securities that are listed on certain foreign exchanges.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2226 · Jul 27, 2023 · Roll call 209On the AmendmentTo reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.
Amendment Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
S. 2226 · Jul 27, 2023 · Roll call 207On the AmendmentTo extend the period for filing claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and to provide for compensation under such Act for claims relating to Manhattan Project waste, and to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining.
