CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Senate Roll Call 7

119th Congress · Session 1 · January 20, 2025

The vote on whether to pass the bill

This is the real decision in this chamber. Passing here sends the bill to the other chamber, which must pass it too before it can go to the President.

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 Passage of the Bill 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: Bill Passed
Needed a simple majority — more than half of those voting.
Yea: 64Nay: 3599 members
PartyYeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat D123300
Independent I0200
Republican R52000
Official record
How each member voted (99)
64 yea, 35 nay