All Roll Calls
Yes: 749 • No: 390
S1071119th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
Sponsored By: Senator Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Became Law
Summary
Strengthens U.S. defense and national security by authorizing FY2026 funding across the Department of Defense, Department of Energy nuclear programs, and the Coast Guard while overhauling acquisition, supply‑chain, and oversight rules.
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- Service members and military families: sets specific FY2026 active force end strengths (for example, Army 454,000 and Air Force 321,500), funds family housing projects, and expands child care and military education protections.
- Defense industry and acquisition workforce: rewrites procurement rules to speed delivery, allows multiyear missile buys, raises major system thresholds (to about $275 million and $1.3 billion), and creates Project Spectrum and other pilots to help small and mid‑size suppliers.
- Nuclear enterprise, biotech, and communities near DOE sites: authorizes DOE national security programs and NNSA reforms, funds stockpile stewardship, and sets plutonium pit production milestones including at least 80 pits by 2030.
*Authorizes roughly $193.2 billion for military personnel and about $34.3 billion for DOE national security programs for FY2026, increasing authorized federal outlays for those accounts.*
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Cornyn, John [R-TX]
TX • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
TX • R
Sponsored 3/14/2025
Roll Call Votes
senate vote • 12/17/2025
On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to S. 1071)
Yes: 77 • No: 20
senate vote • 12/15/2025
On the Cloture Motion S. 1071
Yes: 76 • No: 20
senate vote • 12/11/2025
On the Motion to Proceed S. 1071
Yes: 75 • No: 22
house vote • 12/10/2025
On Passage
Yes: 312 • No: 112
house vote • 12/10/2025
On Motion to Commit
Yes: 209 • No: 216