Senate · Roll call 498 · 117th Congress, session 1

A joint resolution joint resolution relating to increasing the debt limit.

On the Joint Resolution: Joint Resolution Passed 50–49 on Dec 14, 2021. Every voting member sided with the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 1/2
Yea
50
Nay
49
Present
0
Not voting: 1

Dec 14, 2021 · Passage · Party-unity vote

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. S.J.Res. 33 A joint resolution joint resolution relating to increasing the debt limit.
    Became law· Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)· Economics and Public Finance· Dec 16, 2021

A joint resolution joint resolution relating to increasing the debt limit.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats48000
Independents2000
Republicans04901
Total504901

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) · 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) · Not votingRick 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) · NayJoint Resolution Passed50–49
Yea 50Nay 49Not 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 · 48

Independents · 2

Yea · 2

Republicans · 50

Nay · 49

Not voting · 1

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.