Senate · Roll call 151 · 117th Congress, session 1

COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act

On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to 92–6 on Apr 14, 2021. 6 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
92
Nay
6
Present
0
Not voting: 2

Apr 14, 2021 · Cloture

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. S. 937 COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
    Became law· Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)· Crime and Law Enforcement· May 20, 2021

A bill to facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes, and for other purposes.

Split by party

Yea on the left, nay on the right, scaled to each party's members.

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats48000
Independents2000
Republicans42602
Total92602

Seat chart

One seat per member, colored by their recorded position; outlined seats voted against their party's majority. Seats are grouped by party and ordered by DW-NOMINATE (Analisa's layout: House members have no assigned seats).

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) · YeaCory A. Booker (D-NJ) · YeaEdward J. Markey (D-MA) · YeaMazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · YeaTammy Baldwin (D-WI) · YeaJon Ossoff (D-GA) · YeaJeff Merkley (D-OR) · YeaKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · YeaRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · YeaAlex Padilla (D-CA) · YeaBrian Schatz (D-HI) · YeaRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · YeaSherrod Brown (D-OH) · YeaTina Smith (D-MN) · YeaChris Van Hollen (D-MD) · YeaBen Ray Luján (D-NM) · YeaRobert Menendez (D-NJ) · YeaJack Reed (D-RI) · YeaPatrick J. Leahy (D-VT) · YeaPatty Murray (D-WA) · YeaCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · YeaTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · YeaCatherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · YeaDebbie Stabenow (D-MI) · YeaSheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · YeaRichard J. Durbin (D-IL) · YeaRon Wyden (D-OR) · YeaMartin Heinrich (D-NM) · YeaBenjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) · YeaRobert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA) · YeaMaria Cantwell (D-WA) · YeaJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · YeaChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · YeaJacky Rosen (D-NV) · YeaAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · YeaMark Kelly (D-AZ) · YeaDianne Feinstein (D-CA) · YeaGary C. Peters (D-MI) · YeaMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · YeaChristopher A. Coons (D-DE) · YeaTim Kaine (D-VA) · YeaMargaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · YeaJeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · YeaMark R. Warner (D-VA) · YeaJon Tester (D-MT) · YeaThomas R. Carper (D-DE) · YeaKyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) · YeaJoe Manchin, III (D-WV) · YeaBernard Sanders (I-VT) · YeaAngus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) · YeaSusan M. Collins (R-ME) · YeaLisa Murkowski (R-AK) · YeaShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · YeaMitt Romney (R-UT) · YeaMike Rounds (R-SD) · Not votingChuck Grassley (R-IA) · YeaLindsey Graham (R-SC) · YeaRob Portman (R-OH) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · YeaThom Tillis (R-NC) · Not votingRoy Blunt (R-MO) · YeaKevin Cramer (R-ND) · YeaMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · YeaJerry Moran (R-KS) · YeaJohn Boozman (R-AR) · YeaJohn Thune (R-SD) · YeaRichard Burr (R-NC) · YeaTodd Young (R-IN) · YeaRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · YeaCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · YeaDeb Fischer (R-NE) · YeaDan Sullivan (R-AK) · YeaBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · YeaJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · YeaJames E. Risch (R-ID) · YeaJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · YeaJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · YeaTom Cotton (R-AR) · NaySteve Daines (R-MT) · YeaJames Lankford (R-OK) · YeaRoger Marshall (R-KS) · NayMarco Rubio (R-FL) · YeaPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · YeaTim Scott (R-SC) · YeaMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · YeaRon Johnson (R-WI) · YeaBen Sasse (R-NE) · YeaBill Hagerty (R-TN) · YeaCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · YeaRick Scott (R-FL) · YeaTed Cruz (R-TX) · NayMike Braun (R-IN) · YeaJosh Hawley (R-MO) · NayRand Paul (R-KY) · NayMike Lee (R-UT) · YeaTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · NayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to92–6
Yea 92Nay 6Not voting 2Voted against their party

Voted against their party

Members who voted yea or nay against most of their party's voting members.

How each member voted

Recorded positions, by party and then position. Highlighted names voted against the majority of their party's voting members.

Democrats · 48

Yea · 48

Independents · 2

Yea · 2

Republicans · 50

Yea · 42

Nay · 6

Not voting · 2

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll calls via Voteview, from the official Senate record.
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • The seat chart groups members by party (Analisa's layout); it is not a floor plan.