U.S. Senate · 118th Congress, session 1 · Roll call 40
On the Cloture Motion
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Robert Stewart Ballou to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia
Cloture Motion Agreed to · 59 Yea, 35 Nay
- Held
- March 6, 2023, 5:31 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 | 11 | 46 | 2 | 59 |
| Nay | 35 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| Not voting | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Members | 49 | 48 | 3 | 100 |
How each member voted
Yea (59)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- 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)
- 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)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Jon Tester (D-MT)
- Thom Tillis (R-NC)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Nay (35)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- 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)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Tim Scott (R-SC)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- J.D. Vance (R-OH)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
Not voting (6)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)