Senate · Roll call 357 · 117th Congress, session 2

Respect for Marriage Act

On the Motion to Proceed: Motion to Proceed Agreed to 53–23 on Nov 17, 2022. 6 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 1/2
Yea
53
Nay
23
Present
0
Not voting: 24

Nov 17, 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. 8404 Respect for Marriage Act
    Became law· Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10)· Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues· Dec 13, 2022

A bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other purposes.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats45003
Independents2000
Republicans623021
Total5323024

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) · Not votingAlex 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) · Not votingJack 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) · Not votingKyrsten 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) · Not votingShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · YeaMitt Romney (R-UT) · YeaMike Rounds (R-SD) · NayChuck Grassley (R-IA) · NayLindsey Graham (R-SC) · Not votingRob Portman (R-OH) · Not votingRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · NayThom Tillis (R-NC) · YeaRoy Blunt (R-MO) · YeaKevin Cramer (R-ND) · NayMitch McConnell (R-KY) · NayJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · NayJerry Moran (R-KS) · NayJohn Boozman (R-AR) · NayJohn Thune (R-SD) · Not votingRichard Burr (R-NC) · Not votingTodd Young (R-IN) · Not votingRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · NayCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · Not votingDeb Fischer (R-NE) · NayDan Sullivan (R-AK) · Not votingBill Cassidy (R-LA) · Not votingJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · NayMike Crapo (R-ID) · NayJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · Not votingJames E. Risch (R-ID) · NayJames 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) · Not votingMarco Rubio (R-FL) · Not votingPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · NayTim Scott (R-SC) · NayMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · Not votingRon Johnson (R-WI) · Not votingBen Sasse (R-NE) · Not votingBill Hagerty (R-TN) · Not votingCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · Not votingRick Scott (R-FL) · Not votingTed Cruz (R-TX) · NayMike Braun (R-IN) · Not votingJosh Hawley (R-MO) · NayRand Paul (R-KY) · Not votingMike Lee (R-UT) · NayTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · NayMotion to Proceed Agreed to53–23
Yea 53Nay 23Not voting 24Voted 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 · 45

Not voting · 3

Independents · 2

Yea · 2

Republicans · 50

Yea · 6

Nay · 23

Not voting · 21

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.