[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 178 (Thursday, November 17, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S6770]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED


                       Vote on Motion to Proceed

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All postcloture time is expired.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed.
  Mr. MERKLEY. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays have been requested.
  Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. BLUNT. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), 
the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-
Smith), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator 
from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), 
and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
   Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Marshall) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Young) would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 23, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 357 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--23

     Boozman
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     McConnell
     Moran
     Risch
     Rounds
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--24

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Burr
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Warnock
     Young
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, in a few moments, I am going to file 
cloture on the substitute amendment for the Respect for Marriage Act, 
as well as the underlying bill. The substitute I am filing will contain 
the legislative text for the Senate session of the Respect for Marriage 
Act negotiated by both parties. We will hold a cloture vote on the 
substitute amendment when the Senate comes back into session on the 
Monday after Thanksgiving.
  Let me be clear. Passing the Respect for Marriage Act is not a matter 
of if but only of when.
  I thank my colleagues from both sides of the aisle who led this bill, 
and I have zero doubt that Respect for Marriage will soon be the law of 
the land.

                          ____________________