CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Senate Roll Call 2

119th Congress · Session 1 · January 13, 2025

A vote on whether to start debating something

This decides only whether the chamber takes the measure up at all. Nothing about the measure itself has been decided when it passes.

What was being voted on

119-S-5 — Laken Riley Act

This legislation requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to take certain inadmissible aliens into custody if they are charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admit to committing burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer, or any crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury. The bill mandates that the Secretary of Homeland Security issue a detainer for these individuals and take them into custody if they are not already detained by other officials.

The Senate recorded this as
On the Motion to Proceed S. 5
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
Result: Motion to Proceed Agreed to
Needed a simple majority — more than half of those voting.
Yea: 82Nay: 10Not Voting: 698 members
PartyYeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat D32904
Independent I1100
Republican R49002
Official record
How each member voted (98)
82 yea, 10 nay, 6 not voting