Senate · Roll call 359 · 117th Congress, session 2

Respect for Marriage Act

On the Amendment: Amendment Rejected 48–49 on Nov 29, 2022. 2 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Not agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
48
Nay
49
Present
0
Not voting: 3

Nov 29, 2022 · Amendments · 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

To improve the bill.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats14601
Independents0200
Republicans47102
Total484903

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) · NayEdward J. Markey (D-MA) · NayMazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · NayTammy Baldwin (D-WI) · NayJon Ossoff (D-GA) · NayJeff Merkley (D-OR) · NayKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · NayRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · Not votingAlex Padilla (D-CA) · NayBrian Schatz (D-HI) · NayRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · NaySherrod Brown (D-OH) · NayTina Smith (D-MN) · NayChris Van Hollen (D-MD) · NayBen Ray Luján (D-NM) · NayRobert Menendez (D-NJ) · NayJack Reed (D-RI) · NayPatrick J. Leahy (D-VT) · NayPatty Murray (D-WA) · NayCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · NayTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · NayCatherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · NayDebbie Stabenow (D-MI) · NaySheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · NayRichard J. Durbin (D-IL) · NayRon Wyden (D-OR) · NayMartin Heinrich (D-NM) · NayBenjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) · NayRobert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA) · NayMaria Cantwell (D-WA) · NayJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · NayChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · NayJacky Rosen (D-NV) · NayAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · NayMark Kelly (D-AZ) · NayDianne Feinstein (D-CA) · NayGary C. Peters (D-MI) · NayMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · NayChristopher A. Coons (D-DE) · NayTim Kaine (D-VA) · NayMargaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · NayJeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · NayMark R. Warner (D-VA) · NayJon Tester (D-MT) · NayThomas R. Carper (D-DE) · NayKyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) · NayJoe Manchin, III (D-WV) · YeaBernard Sanders (I-VT) · NayAngus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) · NaySusan M. Collins (R-ME) · NayLisa Murkowski (R-AK) · YeaShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · YeaMitt Romney (R-UT) · YeaMike Rounds (R-SD) · YeaChuck Grassley (R-IA) · YeaLindsey Graham (R-SC) · YeaRob Portman (R-OH) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · YeaThom Tillis (R-NC) · YeaRoy Blunt (R-MO) · YeaKevin Cramer (R-ND) · YeaMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · YeaJerry Moran (R-KS) · YeaJohn Boozman (R-AR) · YeaJohn Thune (R-SD) · YeaRichard Burr (R-NC) · YeaTodd Young (R-IN) · YeaRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · YeaCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · YeaDeb Fischer (R-NE) · YeaDan Sullivan (R-AK) · YeaBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · YeaJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · YeaJames E. Risch (R-ID) · YeaJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · YeaJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · YeaTom Cotton (R-AR) · YeaSteve Daines (R-MT) · YeaJames Lankford (R-OK) · YeaRoger Marshall (R-KS) · YeaMarco Rubio (R-FL) · YeaPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · Not votingTim Scott (R-SC) · YeaMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · YeaRon Johnson (R-WI) · YeaBen Sasse (R-NE) · Not votingBill Hagerty (R-TN) · YeaCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · YeaRick Scott (R-FL) · YeaTed Cruz (R-TX) · YeaMike Braun (R-IN) · YeaJosh Hawley (R-MO) · YeaRand Paul (R-KY) · YeaMike Lee (R-UT) · YeaTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · YeaAmendment Rejected48–49
Yea 48Nay 49Not voting 3Voted 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 · 1

Nay · 46

Not voting · 1

Independents · 2

Nay · 2

Republicans · 50

Yea · 47

Nay · 1

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.