Senate · Roll call 227 · 117th Congress, session 1

Paycheck Fairness Act

On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected 49–50 on Jun 8, 2021. Every voting member sided with the majority of their party.

Result
Not agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
49
Nay
50
Present
0
Not voting: 1

Jun 8, 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. 7 Paycheck Fairness Act
    Passed one chamber· Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3)· Labor and Employment· Jun 8, 2021

A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats47001
Independents2000
Republicans05000
Total495001

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) · Not votingRaphael 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) · NayLisa Murkowski (R-AK) · NayShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · NayMitt Romney (R-UT) · NayMike Rounds (R-SD) · NayChuck Grassley (R-IA) · NayLindsey Graham (R-SC) · NayRob Portman (R-OH) · NayRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · NayThom Tillis (R-NC) · NayRoy Blunt (R-MO) · NayKevin 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) · NayTodd Young (R-IN) · NayRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · NayCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · NayDeb Fischer (R-NE) · NayDan Sullivan (R-AK) · NayBill Cassidy (R-LA) · NayJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · NayMike Crapo (R-ID) · NayJoni Ernst (R-IA) · NayJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · NayJames E. Risch (R-ID) · NayJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · NayJohn 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) · NayTim Scott (R-SC) · NayMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · NayRon Johnson (R-WI) · NayBen Sasse (R-NE) · NayBill Hagerty (R-TN) · NayCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · NayRick Scott (R-FL) · NayTed Cruz (R-TX) · NayMike Braun (R-IN) · NayJosh Hawley (R-MO) · NayRand Paul (R-KY) · NayMike Lee (R-UT) · NayTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · NayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected49–50
Yea 49Nay 50Not voting 1Voted against their party

Voted against their party

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

Every voting member sided with their party's majority.

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 · 47

Not voting · 1

Independents · 2

Yea · 2

Republicans · 50

Nay · 50

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.