CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Senate Roll Call 43

119th Congress · Session 1 · February 6, 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

Nominee: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services

The Senate recorded this as
On the Motion to Proceed PN11-8
Result: Motion to Proceed Agreed to
Needed a simple majority — more than half of those voting.
Yea: 52Nay: 46Not Voting: 2100 members
PartyYeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat D04401
Independent I0200
Republican R52001
Official record
How each member voted (100)
52 yea, 46 nay, 2 not voting