Senate Roll Call 97, 118th Congress · April 26, 2023
A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a study and clinical trials on the effects of cannabis on certain health outcomes of veterans with chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2023
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Clinical trials on cannabis for veterans do not address military war powers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (57)
- Tammy Baldwin
- Michael F. Bennet
- Richard Blumenthal
- Cory A. Booker
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Bill Cassidy
- Susan M. Collins
- Christopher A. Coons
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Tammy Duckworth
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Fetterman
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- Margaret Wood Hassan
- Josh Hawley
- Martin Heinrich
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Mazie K. Hirono
- Tim Kaine
- Mark Kelly
- Angus S. King, Jr.
- Amy Klobuchar
- Ben Ray Luján
- Joe Manchin, III
- Edward J. Markey
- Robert Menendez
- Jeff Merkley
- Jerry Moran
- Lisa Murkowski
- Christopher Murphy
- Patty Murray
- Jon Ossoff
- Alex Padilla
- Gary C. Peters
- Jack Reed
- Jacky Rosen
- Mike Rounds
- Bernard Sanders
- Brian Schatz
- Eric Schmitt
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Tina Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- Dan Sullivan
- Jon Tester
- Chris Van Hollen
- Mark R. Warner
- Raphael G. Warnock
- Elizabeth Warren
- Peter Welch
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Nay (42)
- John Barrasso
- Marsha Blackburn
- John Boozman
- Mike Braun
- Katie Boyd Britt
- Ted Budd
- Shelley Moore Capito
- John Cornyn
- Tom Cotton
- Kevin Cramer
- Mike Crapo
- Ted Cruz
- Steve Daines
- Joni Ernst
- Deb Fischer
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Bill Hagerty
- John Hoeven
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- Ron Johnson
- John Kennedy
- James Lankford
- Mike Lee
- Cynthia M. Lummis
- Roger Marshall
- Mitch McConnell
- Markwayne Mullin
- Rand Paul
- Pete Ricketts
- James E. Risch
- Mitt Romney
- Marco Rubio
- Charles E. Schumer
- Rick Scott
- Tim Scott
- John Thune
- Thom Tillis
- Tommy Tuberville
- J.D. Vance
- Roger F. Wicker
- Todd Young
Not voting or present (1)
- Dianne FeinsteinDid not vote
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