Senate · Roll call 242 · 117th Congress, session 2

Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

On the Motion: Motion Agreed to 65–33 on Jun 23, 2022. 15 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 1/2
Yea
65
Nay
33
Present
0
Not voting: 2

Jun 23, 2022 · Procedural · Party-unity vote

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The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. S. 2938 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
    Became law· Marco Rubio (R-FL)· Crime and Law Enforcement· Jun 25, 2022

An act to make our communities safer.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats48000
Independents2000
Republicans153302
Total653302

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) · NayChuck Grassley (R-IA) · NayLindsey Graham (R-SC) · YeaRob Portman (R-OH) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · NayThom Tillis (R-NC) · YeaRoy Blunt (R-MO) · YeaKevin Cramer (R-ND) · Not votingMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · NayJerry Moran (R-KS) · NayJohn Boozman (R-AR) · NayJohn Thune (R-SD) · NayRichard Burr (R-NC) · YeaTodd Young (R-IN) · YeaRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · NayCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · NayDeb Fischer (R-NE) · NayDan Sullivan (R-AK) · NayBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · NayJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · NayJames E. Risch (R-ID) · NayJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · NayJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · NayTom Cotton (R-AR) · Not votingSteve Daines (R-MT) · NayJames Lankford (R-OK) · NayRoger Marshall (R-KS) · NayMarco Rubio (R-FL) · NayPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · YeaTim 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) · NayMotion Agreed to65–33
Yea 65Nay 33Not 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 · 15

Nay · 33

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 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.