Senate · Roll call 158 · 117th Congress, session 2

United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

On the Motion: Motion Agreed to 53–43 on May 4, 2022. 42 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 1/2
Yea
53
Nay
43
Present
0
Not voting: 4

May 4, 2022 · Procedural · Party-unity vote

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. H.R. 4521 United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021
    Passed both chambers· Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30)· Science, Technology, Communications· May 5, 2022

A bill to provide for a coordinated Federal research initiative to ensure continued United States leadership in engineering biology.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats232401
Independents1100
Republicans291803
Total534304

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) · NayCory A. Booker (D-NJ) · YeaEdward J. Markey (D-MA) · NayMazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · NayTammy Baldwin (D-WI) · NayJon Ossoff (D-GA) · YeaJeff Merkley (D-OR) · NayKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · NayRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · YeaAlex Padilla (D-CA) · NayBrian Schatz (D-HI) · NayRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · NaySherrod Brown (D-OH) · NayTina Smith (D-MN) · YeaChris Van Hollen (D-MD) · NayBen Ray Luján (D-NM) · NayRobert Menendez (D-NJ) · YeaJack Reed (D-RI) · NayPatrick J. Leahy (D-VT) · YeaPatty Murray (D-WA) · YeaCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · NayTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · NayCatherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · YeaDebbie Stabenow (D-MI) · NaySheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · NayRichard J. Durbin (D-IL) · NayRon Wyden (D-OR) · YeaMartin Heinrich (D-NM) · NayBenjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) · NayRobert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA) · NayMaria Cantwell (D-WA) · YeaJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · YeaChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · NayJacky Rosen (D-NV) · YeaAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · YeaMark Kelly (D-AZ) · YeaDianne Feinstein (D-CA) · YeaGary C. Peters (D-MI) · NayMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · Not votingChristopher 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) · NayThomas R. Carper (D-DE) · YeaKyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) · YeaJoe Manchin, III (D-WV) · YeaBernard Sanders (I-VT) · NayAngus 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) · YeaChuck Grassley (R-IA) · NayLindsey Graham (R-SC) · NayRob Portman (R-OH) · NayRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · YeaThom Tillis (R-NC) · YeaRoy Blunt (R-MO) · Not votingKevin Cramer (R-ND) · YeaMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · NayJerry Moran (R-KS) · NayJohn Boozman (R-AR) · NayJohn Thune (R-SD) · YeaRichard Burr (R-NC) · YeaTodd Young (R-IN) · YeaRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · Not votingCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · NayDeb Fischer (R-NE) · YeaDan Sullivan (R-AK) · YeaBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · NayJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · YeaJames E. Risch (R-ID) · Not votingJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · YeaJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · NayTom Cotton (R-AR) · NaySteve Daines (R-MT) · YeaJames Lankford (R-OK) · NayRoger Marshall (R-KS) · YeaMarco Rubio (R-FL) · NayPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · YeaTim Scott (R-SC) · NayMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · YeaRon Johnson (R-WI) · NayBen Sasse (R-NE) · YeaBill Hagerty (R-TN) · NayCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · YeaRick Scott (R-FL) · NayTed Cruz (R-TX) · YeaMike Braun (R-IN) · NayJosh Hawley (R-MO) · NayRand Paul (R-KY) · YeaMike Lee (R-UT) · YeaTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · YeaMotion Agreed to53–43
Yea 53Nay 43Not voting 4Voted 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 · 23

Nay · 24

Not voting · 1

Independents · 2

Yea · 1

Nay · 1

Republicans · 50

Yea · 29

Nay · 18

Not voting · 3

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.