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Senate · Roll call 223 · 1st session · Sept. 11, 2023 A vote to end debate on the nomination of Tanya J. Bradsher to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Cloture Motion Agreed to49–44 End debate
Party-line vote
- Question
- On the Cloture Motion
- Official record
- Senate roll call 223, 118th Congress, 1st session
- Capitol Lens ID
- 118-s223, used in this page's address. It numbers every Senate roll call of the 118th Congress in order, so it differs from the official number, which restarts each session.
- Bill
- PN 551
How each party voted
Party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
About this vote
This cloture vote concerned the nomination of Tanya J. Bradsher to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Cloture ends debate on a pending question; for nominations it needs only a simple majority of senators voting, and if it is invoked a final confirmation vote follows. A Yes vote was a vote to end debate and move toward confirmation.
This summary was drafted and checked with AI (Claude) using only the official record of the vote. Report an error
How each member voted
| Member | Seat | Party | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Sullivan | AK | Republican | No |
| Lisa Murkowski | AK | Republican | No |
| Katie Boyd Britt | AL | Republican | No |
| Tommy Tuberville | AL | Republican | No |
| John Boozman | AR | Republican | No |
| Tom Cotton | AR | Republican | No |
| Kyrsten Sinema | AZ | Independent | Yes |
| Mark Kelly | AZ | Democrat | Yes |
| Alex Padilla | CA | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Dianne Feinstein | CA | Democrat | Yes |
| John W. Hickenlooper | CO | Democrat | Yes |
| Michael F. Bennet | CO | Democrat | Yes |
| Christopher Murphy | CT | Democrat | Yes |
| Richard Blumenthal | CT | Democrat | Yes |
| Christopher A. Coons | DE | Democrat | Yes |
| Thomas R. Carper | DE | Democrat | Yes |
| Marco Rubio | FL | Republican | No |
| Rick Scott | FL | Republican | No |
| Jon Ossoff | GA | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Raphael G. Warnock | GA | Democrat | Yes |
| Brian Schatz | HI | Democrat | Yes |
| Mazie K. Hirono | HI | Democrat | Yes |
| Chuck Grassley | IA | Republican | No |
| Joni Ernst | IA | Republican | No |
| James E. Risch | ID | Republican | Did not vote |
| Mike Crapo | ID | Republican | No |
| Richard J. Durbin | IL | Democrat | Yes |
| Tammy Duckworth | IL | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Mike Braun | IN | Republican | Did not vote |
| Todd Young | IN | Republican | No |
| Jerry Moran | KS | Republican | No |
| Roger Marshall | KS | Republican | No |
| Mitch McConnell | KY | Republican | No |
| Rand Paul | KY | Republican | No |
| Bill Cassidy | LA | Republican | No |
| John Kennedy | LA | Republican | No |
| Edward J. Markey | MA | Democrat | Yes |
| Elizabeth Warren | MA | Democrat | Yes |
| Benjamin L. Cardin | MD | Democrat | Yes |
| Chris Van Hollen | MD | Democrat | Yes |
| Angus S. King, Jr. | ME | Independent | Yes |
| Susan M. Collins | ME | Republican | Yes |
| Debbie Stabenow | MI | Democrat | Yes |
| Gary C. Peters | MI | Democrat | Yes |
| Amy Klobuchar | MN | Democrat | Yes |
| Tina Smith | MN | Democrat | Yes |
| Eric Schmitt | MO | Republican | No |
| Josh Hawley | MO | Republican | No |
| Cindy Hyde-Smith | MS | Republican | No |
| Roger F. Wicker | MS | Republican | No |
| Jon Tester | MT | Democrat | Yes |
| Steve Daines | MT | Republican | No |
| Ted Budd | NC | Republican | No |
| Thom Tillis | NC | Republican | No |
| John Hoeven | ND | Republican | No |
| Kevin Cramer | ND | Republican | Did not vote |
| Deb Fischer | NE | Republican | No |
| Pete Ricketts | NE | Republican | No |
| Jeanne Shaheen | NH | Democrat | Yes |
| Margaret Wood Hassan | NH | Democrat | Yes |
| Cory A. Booker | NJ | Democrat | Yes |
| Robert Menendez | NJ | Democrat | No |
| Ben Ray Luján | NM | Democrat | Yes |
| Martin Heinrich | NM | Democrat | Yes |
| Catherine Cortez Masto | NV | Democrat | Yes |
| Jacky Rosen | NV | Democrat | Yes |
| Charles E. Schumer | NY | Democrat | Yes |
| Kirsten E. Gillibrand | NY | Democrat | Yes |
| J.D. Vance | OH | Republican | No |
| Sherrod Brown | OH | Democrat | Yes |
| James Lankford | OK | Republican | No |
| Markwayne Mullin | OK | Republican | No |
| Jeff Merkley | OR | Democrat | Yes |
| Ron Wyden | OR | Democrat | Yes |
| John Fetterman | PA | Democrat | Yes |
| Robert P. Casey, Jr. | PA | Democrat | Yes |
| Jack Reed | RI | Democrat | Yes |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | RI | Democrat | Yes |
| Lindsey Graham | SC | Republican | No |
| Tim Scott | SC | Republican | Did not vote |
| John Thune | SD | Republican | No |
| Mike Rounds | SD | Republican | Yes |
| Bill Hagerty | TN | Republican | No |
| Marsha Blackburn | TN | Republican | No |
| John Cornyn | TX | Republican | No |
| Ted Cruz | TX | Republican | No |
| Mike Lee | UT | Republican | No |
| Mitt Romney | UT | Republican | No |
| Mark R. Warner | VA | Democrat | Yes |
| Tim Kaine | VA | Democrat | Yes |
| Bernard Sanders | VT | Independent | Yes |
| Peter Welch | VT | Democrat | Yes |
| Maria Cantwell | WA | Democrat | Yes |
| Patty Murray | WA | Democrat | Yes |
| Ron Johnson | WI | Republican | No |
| Tammy Baldwin | WI | Democrat | Yes |
| Joe Manchin, III | WV | Democrat | Yes |
| Shelley Moore Capito | WV | Republican | No |
| Cynthia M. Lummis | WY | Republican | No |
| John Barrasso | WY | Republican | No |