Senate Passed H.R. 6500 by 90-6 Without Program-Level Detail in Roll-Call Record

The Senate roll-call record for H.R. 6500 shows the vote beginning at 3:37 a.m. and ending at 4:13 a.m. on August 8, 2026. The bill passed 90-6, with a three-fifths majority required.

The official description covers continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027. It also describes extending duty-free treatment for imports from certain African countries under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, along with customs user fees. The record states, “No Statement of Purpose on File.”

The supplied roll-call record does not identify the programs covered by the appropriations language, the affected African countries, the length of either extension or the appropriations amounts. That makes the accountability finding narrower than a conclusion about the bill’s full policy effect: the vote record shows the measure’s broad subjects, but not its program-level commitments.

The six senators recorded as voting no were Bill Cassidy, Tim Kaine, Ed Markey, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The excerpt lists Graham as Present, with the first name “Darline” in the supplied text. James Lankford, Mitch McConnell and Thom Tillis were recorded as Not Voting.

The roll call gives no reasons for the six Nay votes. On the supplied record alone, it therefore does not establish whether their opposition concerned appropriations, AGOA, customs fees, another provision or the decision to combine the subjects.

The Gen Us AIPAC Spending Tracker reports $250,019,799 in tracked campaign resources and independent expenditures across 535 congressional records, including 499 funded records. Its methodology says the dataset does not by itself prove that a vote was purchased, and the supplied dataset does not document a connection to vote 119-2-00228. The packet also does not establish a specific beneficiary, contractor, appropriations amount or lobbying payment tied to H.R. 6500.

The supported conclusion is limited: the Senate approved a broad legislative vehicle, while the supplied official vote record leaves its program-level details and fiscal amounts undisclosed. The evidence does not establish a particular beneficiary, a justification for any extension or a causal connection between campaign spending and the vote.