Vote Tracker
Tracking how Congress votes on key issues.
This was a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. After federal immigration agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Democrats demanded reforms—including body cameras, a ban on agents concealing their identities with masks, and judicial warrants for arrests. Republicans refused. The bill could not get the 60 votes required to end debate, triggering a shutdown at midnight on February 14.
This is a bill to require documentary proof of citizenship—such as a passport or birth certificate—to register to vote, plus photo ID to cast a ballot. Non-citizen voting is already illegal and extremely rare. When Kansas implemented a similar requirement, it blocked over 31,000 eligible citizens from registering while catching just 39 non-citizens over 14 years. Research shows more than 21 million American citizens lack ready access to citizenship documents—disproportionately affecting people of color, young voters, married women whose names don't match their birth certificates, and low-income Americans.