Democrats block government funding bill for 12th time after marathon floor protest

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

10/22/25 5:59 PM ET


Senate Democrats voted Wednesday for a 12th time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the government and keep it funded through Nov. 21.

Democrats blocked the funding measure — a clean continuing resolution that would prolong Biden-era funding levels — after liberal Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) spoke on the Senate floor for nearly 23 hours to protest President Trump’s first nine months in office. Democratic colleagues applauded Merkley’s show of defiance before the vote on the Republican-drafted funding bill.

The bill failed to advance by a vote of 54-46. It needed 60 votes to move forward.

Only three members of the Democratic caucus voted to reopen the government: Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), John Fetterman (Pa.) and Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) was the lone Republican to oppose the measure.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5568368-democrats-government-funding-bill-shutdown/

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Roll Call vote - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00581.htm

As a note, all 100 voted in this last vote (the past bunch of rounds had a pile of non-voters from both parties).

[Wiz Imp]

1. The vote has not changed since the first vote.

The same 54 voting yes and the same 46 voting no.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Nope - there have combinations and permutations of voting and not voting so not the same

I have been posting some of these.

The last one - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143550806

11th
Link to (11th) Roll Call vote - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00576.htm

Vote Counts:
YEAs 50
NAYs 43
Not Voting 7

Not Voting - 7

Curtis (R-UT)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tillis (R-NC)
Welch (D-VT)

The 10th vote - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143548629

10th
Link to 10th Roll Call - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00573.htm

Vote Counts:
YEAs 51
NAYs 45
Not Voting 4

Not Voting - 4

Cassidy (R-LA)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)

The 9th vote - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143548200

9th
Link to 9th Roll Call - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00572.htm

Vote Counts:
YEAs 51
NAYs 44
Not Voting 5

Not Voting - 5

Blackburn (R-TN)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Marshall (R-KS)
Tillis (R-NC)

I can go back through the previous 8 but you get the picture. There have been odds and ends of "Not Votings".

[Wiz Imp]

4. My point was, nobody who originally voted yes has changed to no

and nobody who originally voted no has changed to yes. (with the exception of Thune who has sometimes voted yes and sometimes voted no presumably for procedural reasons). I don't give a damn about people who missed votes. it's irrelevant and none of them have changed their vote when they have voted.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. And that is incorrect too

nobody who originally voted no has changed to yes

The very first vote was done 9/19/25, right after it passed the House - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00528.htm

Vote Counts:
YEAs 44
NAYs 48
Not Voting 8

Both Cortez Masto and King voted NAY on the first vote.

NAYs ---48
Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lujan (D-NM)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Paul (R-KY)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Those 2 switched with the 9/30/25 vote and thereafter - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00535.htm

(I remember some grumbling about it)

[Prairie Gates]

2. Goood