CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Senate Roll Call 5

119th Congress · Session 1 · January 17, 2025

A vote to end debate and allow a final vote

In the Senate, debate can continue indefinitely unless 60 senators vote to end it. This vote is that attempt. It decides whether the Senate may vote on the thing at all — not whether the thing passes. A failed cloture vote usually ends the matter without anyone ever voting on its merits.

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 Cloture Motion 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: Cloture Motion Agreed to
Needed three-fifths (60 of 100 senators), the bar for ending debate.
Yea: 61Nay: 35Not Voting: 399 members
PartyYeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat D103302
Independent I0200
Republican R51001
Official record
How each member voted (99)
61 yea, 35 nay, 3 not voting