Senate Roll Call 268, 118th Congress · October 25, 2023
To prohibit the availability of funds for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- GunsA yea counts toward “Gun rights”
model(0.95): Prohibiting reporting to NICS weakens gun background check enforcement, advancing gun rights.
Tagged by: keyword:background check
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A policy rider regarding gun background checks is not a spending issue.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (53)
- John Barrasso
- Marsha Blackburn
- John Boozman
- Mike Braun
- Katie Boyd Britt
- Ted Budd
- Shelley Moore Capito
- Bill Cassidy
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Tom Cotton
- Kevin Cramer
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Joni Ernst
- Deb Fischer
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Bill Hagerty
- Josh Hawley
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- Ron Johnson
- John Kennedy
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- James Lankford
- Mike Lee
- Cynthia M. Lummis
- Joe Manchin, III
- Roger Marshall
- Mitch McConnell
- Jerry Moran
- Markwayne Mullin
- Lisa Murkowski
- Rand Paul
- Pete Ricketts
- James E. Risch
- Mitt Romney
- Jacky Rosen
- Mike Rounds
- Marco Rubio
- Eric Schmitt
- Rick Scott
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Dan Sullivan
- Jon Tester
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Tommy Tuberville
- J.D. Vance
- Roger F. Wicker
- Todd Young
Nay (45)
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Cory A. Booker
- Sherrod Brown
- Laphonza R. Butler
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Christopher A. Coons
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Fetterman
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Martin Heinrich
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Mazie K. Hirono
- Tim Kaine
- Mark Kelly
- Amy Klobuchar
- Ben Ray Luján
- Edward J. Markey
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Jon Ossoff
- Gary C. Peters
- Jack Reed
- Bernard Sanders
- Brian Schatz
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Raphael G. Warnock
- Elizabeth Warren
- Peter Welch
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- Alex PadillaDid not vote
- Tim ScottDid not vote
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