U.S. Senate · 117th Congress, session 1 · Roll call 359
On the Cloture Motion
Motion to Invoke Cloture: James Richard Kvaal to be Under Secretary of Education
Cloture Motion Agreed to · 55 Yea, 37 Nay
- Held
- September 13, 2021, 5:40 PM EDT
- 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 | 9 | 44 | 2 | 55 |
| Nay | 37 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Not voting | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Members | 50 | 48 | 2 | 100 |
How each member voted
Yea (55)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- 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)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Joe Manchin, III (D-WV)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Jon Tester (D-MT)
- 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 (37)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
- Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Rob Portman (R-OH)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Ben Sasse (R-NE)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Thom Tillis (R-NC)
- Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
Not voting (8)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)