- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: March 25, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS RELATING TO “REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES”—Motion to Proceed
Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 338, S.J. Res. 103.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 338, S.J. Res. 103, a
joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval
under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule
submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to
“Reproductive Health Services”.
Vote on Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed.
Mr. BLUMENTHAL. I ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
There appears to be a sufficient second.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Curtis).
Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Curtis) would have voted “nay.”
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) is necessarily absent.
The result was announced—yeas 48, nays 50, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 72 Leg.
YEAS—48
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS—50
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING—2
Curtis
Schatz
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.