Senate · Roll call 240 · 119th Congress, session 2

Protect College Sports Act of 2026

On the Cloture Motion: Cloture Motion Agreed to 70–21 on Sep 22, 2026. 21 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
70
Nay
21
Present
0
Not voting: 9

Sep 22, 2026 · Cloture

Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record

The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. S. 4668 Protect College Sports Act of 2026
    Passed one chamber· Ted Cruz (R-TX)· Sports and Recreation· Sep 28, 2026

In the nature of a substitute.

Split by party

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

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats221706
Independents1100
Republicans47303
Total702109

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) · YeaTammy Baldwin (D-WI) · YeaJon Ossoff (D-GA) · YeaAngela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD) · NayJeff Merkley (D-OR) · NayKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · NayRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · NayAlex Padilla (D-CA) · YeaBrian Schatz (D-HI) · Not votingRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · NayAndy Kim (D-NJ) · Not votingTina Smith (D-MN) · YeaChris Van Hollen (D-MD) · NayPeter Welch (D-VT) · YeaLisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) · NayBen Ray Luján (D-NM) · YeaElissa Slotkin (D-MI) · YeaJack Reed (D-RI) · NayPatty Murray (D-WA) · YeaRuben Gallego (D-AZ) · Not votingCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · NayAdam B. Schiff (D-CA) · NayTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · NayCatherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · YeaSheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · Not votingRichard J. Durbin (D-IL) · NayRon Wyden (D-OR) · YeaMartin Heinrich (D-NM) · YeaMaria Cantwell (D-WA) · YeaJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · YeaChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · Not votingJacky Rosen (D-NV) · YeaAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · YeaMark Kelly (D-AZ) · NayGary C. Peters (D-MI) · YeaMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · YeaChristopher A. Coons (D-DE) · Not votingTim Kaine (D-VA) · NayMargaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · YeaJeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · YeaMark R. Warner (D-VA) · YeaJohn Fetterman (D-PA) · YeaBernard Sanders (I-VT) · NayAngus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) · YeaSusan M. Collins (R-ME) · YeaLisa Murkowski (R-AK) · YeaShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · YeaMike Rounds (R-SD) · YeaChuck Grassley (R-IA) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · YeaThom Tillis (R-NC) · Not votingKevin Cramer (R-ND) · YeaMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · YeaJerry Moran (R-KS) · YeaJohn Boozman (R-AR) · YeaJohn Thune (R-SD) · YeaTodd Young (R-IN) · YeaPete Ricketts (R-NE) · YeaCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · YeaJohn R. Curtis (R-UT) · YeaDeb Fischer (R-NE) · YeaDan Sullivan (R-AK) · YeaBill Cassidy (R-LA) · Not votingJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · YeaDarline Graham (R-SC) · YeaJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · YeaJames E. Risch (R-ID) · YeaJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · YeaJames C. Justice (R-WV) · YeaTom Cotton (R-AR) · YeaKatie Boyd Britt (R-AL) · YeaJon Husted (R-OH) · YeaSteve Daines (R-MT) · YeaJames Lankford (R-OK) · YeaDavid McCormick (R-PA) · YeaRoger Marshall (R-KS) · YeaTim Scott (R-SC) · YeaMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · YeaTed Budd (R-NC) · YeaTim Sheehy (R-MT) · YeaAlan Armstrong (R-OK) · YeaRon Johnson (R-WI) · YeaJim Banks (R-IN) · YeaBill Hagerty (R-TN) · YeaCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · YeaAshley Moody (R-FL) · NayBernie Moreno (R-OH) · YeaRick Scott (R-FL) · NayTed Cruz (R-TX) · YeaJosh Hawley (R-MO) · YeaRand Paul (R-KY) · NayEric Schmitt (R-MO) · YeaMike Lee (R-UT) · YeaTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · Not votingCloture Motion Agreed to70–21
Yea 70Nay 21Not voting 9Voted 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 · 45

Yea · 22

Nay · 17

Not voting · 6

Independents · 2

Yea · 1

Nay · 1

Republicans · 53

Yea · 47

Nay · 3

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.