Senate Roll Call 885, 117th Congress · November 17, 2022
A bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Respect for Marriage Act
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.95): Proceeding to repeal DOMA advances LGBTQ and civil rights protections.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- LGBTQ PolicyA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.95): Proceeding to repeal DOMA advances LGBTQ rights.
Tagged by: keyword:defense of marriage
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (53)
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Roy Blunt
- Cory A. Booker
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- Joni Ernst
- Dianne Feinstein
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Martin Heinrich
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Mazie K. Hirono
- Tim Kaine
- Mark Kelly
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Ben Ray Luján
- Joe Manchin, III
- Edward J. Markey
- Jeff Merkley
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Jon Ossoff
- Alex Padilla
- Gary C. Peters
- Jack Reed
- Mitt Romney
- Jacky Rosen
- Bernard Sanders
- Brian Schatz
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Jon Tester
- Thom Tillis
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Elizabeth Warren
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (23)
Not voting or present (24)
- John BarrassoDid not vote
- Marsha BlackburnDid not vote
- Mike BraunDid not vote
- Richard BurrDid not vote
- Thomas R. CarperDid not vote
- Bill CassidyDid not vote
- Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
- Bill HagertyDid not vote
- Cindy Hyde-SmithDid not vote
- James M. InhofeDid not vote
- Ron JohnsonDid not vote
- Cynthia M. LummisDid not vote
- Roger MarshallDid not vote
- Robert MenendezDid not vote
- Lisa MurkowskiDid not vote
- Rand PaulDid not vote
- Rob PortmanDid not vote
- Marco RubioDid not vote
- Ben SasseDid not vote
- Rick ScottDid not vote
- Dan SullivanDid not vote
- John ThuneDid not vote
- Raphael G. WarnockDid not vote
- Todd YoungDid not vote
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