Senate · Roll call 218 · 117th Congress, session 1

National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act

On the Cloture Motion: Cloture Motion Rejected 54–35 on May 28, 2021. 6 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Not agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
54
Nay
35
Present
0
Not voting: 11

May 28, 2021 · Cloture · Party-unity vote

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. H.R. 3233 National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act
    Passed one chamber· Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2)· Congress· May 28, 2021

A bill to establish the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex, and for other purposes.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats46002
Independents2000
Republicans63509
Total5435011

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) · Not votingCharles 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) · Not votingJoe 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) · NayMitt Romney (R-UT) · YeaMike Rounds (R-SD) · Not votingChuck Grassley (R-IA) · NayLindsey Graham (R-SC) · NayRob Portman (R-OH) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · NayThom Tillis (R-NC) · NayRoy Blunt (R-MO) · Not votingKevin Cramer (R-ND) · NayMitch McConnell (R-KY) · NayJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · NayJerry Moran (R-KS) · NayJohn Boozman (R-AR) · NayJohn Thune (R-SD) · NayRichard Burr (R-NC) · Not votingTodd Young (R-IN) · NayRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · Not votingCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · NayDeb Fischer (R-NE) · NayDan Sullivan (R-AK) · NayBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · NayMike Crapo (R-ID) · NayJoni Ernst (R-IA) · NayJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · NayJames E. Risch (R-ID) · Not votingJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · Not votingJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · NayTom Cotton (R-AR) · NaySteve Daines (R-MT) · NayJames Lankford (R-OK) · NayRoger Marshall (R-KS) · NayMarco Rubio (R-FL) · NayPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · Not votingTim Scott (R-SC) · NayMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · Not votingRon Johnson (R-WI) · NayBen Sasse (R-NE) · YeaBill Hagerty (R-TN) · NayCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · NayRick Scott (R-FL) · NayTed Cruz (R-TX) · NayMike Braun (R-IN) · Not votingJosh Hawley (R-MO) · NayRand Paul (R-KY) · NayMike Lee (R-UT) · NayTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · NayCloture Motion Rejected54–35
Yea 54Nay 35Not voting 11Voted 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 · 46

Not voting · 2

Independents · 2

Yea · 2

Republicans · 50

Yea · 6

Nay · 35

Not voting · 9

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 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 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.