U.S. Senate · 117th Congress, session 1 · Roll call 112
On the Cloture Motion
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Merrick Brian Garland to be Attorney General
Cloture Motion Agreed to · 70 Yea, 29 Nay
- Held
- March 9, 2021, 6:18 PM EST
- Vote type
- Cloture
- Party-unity vote
- Yes (most Democrats and most Republicans voted opposite ways)
- Official record
- www.senate.gov
How each party voted
Members are shown in the party they belonged to on the day of the vote, as the official record lists them. In our statistics, independents are counted with the party they caucus with.
| Vote | Republican | Democrat | Independent | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yea | 20 | 48 | 2 | 70 |
| Nay | 29 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Not voting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Members | 50 | 48 | 2 | 100 |
How each member voted
Yea (70)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Richard Burr (R-NC)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
- Thomas R. Carper (D-DE)
- Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
- Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Joe Manchin, III (D-WV)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Rob Portman (R-OH)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Jon Tester (D-MT)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Thom Tillis (R-NC)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Nay (29)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Ben Sasse (R-NE)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
Not voting (1)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)