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S. 3012Shutdown Fairness Act
- Sponsor
- Ron Johnson [R-WI]
- Cosponsors
- 13 · 13 Republicans
- Policy area
- Government Operations and Politics
- Latest action
- Nov 7, 2025 · Upon reconsideration, cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 53 - 43. Record Vote Number: 609.
- IntroducedOct 15, 2025
- Passed the SenateNot yet reached
- Passed the HouseNot yet reached
- Sent to the PresidentNot yet reached
- Became lawNot yet reached
This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees who work during a government shutdown.
Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments to excepted employees for work performed during any period in which interim continuing appropriations or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown). An excepted employee is an employee who is required to work during a government shutdown.
Under current law, excepted employees are not paid until the government shutdown is over. This bill provides appropriations to pay excepted employees during a government shutdown. The bill also specifies that the term excepted employee includes certain contractors who support federal employees during a government shutdown and members of the Armed Forces who are on active duty.
A federal agency may not use the funds provided by this bill during any period in which continuing appropriations are in effect for the purpose of paying excepted employees of the agency.
The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 3012 as introduced in Senate on Oct 15, 2025. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
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Oct 23, 2025Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveNov 7, 2025
Senate Oct 23, 2025 · the primary vote
On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Proceed to S. 3012
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
54 Yea 45 Nay 1 not voting
Party-line vote 4 of 99 voting members broke with their own party: 3 Democrats, 1 Republican.
How the chamber split
DemocratsIndependentsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
Showing 100 of 100 members
- DAngela D. AlsobrooksMD · DemocraticNay
- DTammy BaldwinWI · DemocraticNay
- RJim BanksIN · RepublicanYea
- RJohn BarrassoWY · RepublicanYea
- DMichael F. BennetCO · DemocraticNay
- RMarsha BlackburnTN · RepublicanYea
- DRichard BlumenthalCT · DemocraticNay
- DLisa Blunt RochesterDE · DemocraticNay
- DCory A. BookerNJ · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RJohn BoozmanAR · RepublicanYea
- RKatie Boyd BrittAL · RepublicanYea
- RTed BuddNC · RepublicanYea
- DMaria CantwellWA · DemocraticNay
- RShelley Moore CapitoWV · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RBill CassidyLA · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RSusan M. CollinsME · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- DChristopher A. CoonsDE · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RJohn CornynTX · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- DCatherine Cortez MastoNV · DemocraticNay
- RTom CottonAR · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RKevin CramerND · RepublicanYea
- RMike CrapoID · RepublicanYea
- RTed CruzTX · RepublicanYea
- RJohn R. CurtisUT · RepublicanYea
- RSteve DainesMT · RepublicanYea
- DTammy DuckworthIL · DemocraticNay
- DRichard J. DurbinIL · DemocraticNay
- RJoni ErnstIA · RepublicanYea
- DJohn FettermanPA · DemocraticBroke with party (Democratic majority)Yea
- RDeb FischerNE · RepublicanYea
- DRuben GallegoAZ · DemocraticNay
- DKirsten E. GillibrandNY · DemocraticNay
- RLindsey GrahamSC · RepublicanYea
- RChuck GrassleyIA · RepublicanYea
- RBill HagertyTN · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- DMargaret Wood HassanNH · DemocraticNay
- RJosh HawleyMO · RepublicanYea
- DMartin HeinrichNM · DemocraticNay
- DJohn W. HickenlooperCO · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- DMazie K. HironoHI · DemocraticNay
- RJohn HoevenND · RepublicanYea
- RJon HustedOH · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RCindy Hyde-SmithMS · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RRon JohnsonWI · RepublicanYea
- RJames C. JusticeWV · RepublicanYea
- DTim KaineVA · DemocraticNay
- DMark KellyAZ · DemocraticNay
- RJohn KennedyLA · RepublicanYea
- DAndy KimNJ · DemocraticNay
- IAngus S. King, Jr.ME · IndependentNay
- DAmy KlobucharMN · DemocraticNay
- RJames LankfordOK · RepublicanYea
- RMike LeeUT · RepublicanYea
- DBen Ray LujánNM · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RCynthia M. LummisWY · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- DEdward J. MarkeyMA · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RRoger MarshallKS · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RMitch McConnellKY · RepublicanYea
- RDavid McCormickPA · RepublicanYea
- DJeff MerkleyOR · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RAshley MoodyFL · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RJerry MoranKS · RepublicanYea
- RBernie MorenoOH · RepublicanYea
- RMarkwayne MullinOK · RepublicanYea
- RLisa MurkowskiAK · RepublicanYea
- DChristopher MurphyCT · DemocraticNay
- DPatty MurrayWA · DemocraticNay
- DJon OssoffGA · DemocraticBroke with party (Democratic majority)Running in 2026Yea
- DAlex PadillaCA · DemocraticNay
- RRand PaulKY · RepublicanYea
- DGary C. PetersMI · DemocraticNay
- DJack ReedRI · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RPete RickettsNE · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RJames E. RischID · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- DJacky RosenNV · DemocraticNay
- RMike RoundsSD · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- IBernard SandersVT · IndependentNay
- DBrian SchatzHI · DemocraticNay
- DAdam B. SchiffCA · DemocraticNay
- REric SchmittMO · RepublicanYea
- DCharles E. SchumerNY · DemocraticNay
- RRick ScottFL · RepublicanYea
- RTim ScottSC · RepublicanYea
- DJeanne ShaheenNH · DemocraticNay
- RTim SheehyMT · RepublicanNot voting
- DElissa SlotkinMI · DemocraticNay
- DTina SmithMN · DemocraticNay
- RDan SullivanAK · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RJohn ThuneSD · RepublicanBroke with party (Republican majority)Nay
- RThom TillisNC · RepublicanYea
- RTommy TubervilleAL · RepublicanYea
- DChris Van HollenMD · DemocraticNay
- DMark R. WarnerVA · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- DRaphael G. WarnockGA · DemocraticBroke with party (Democratic majority)Yea
- DElizabeth WarrenMA · DemocraticNay
- DPeter WelchVT · DemocraticNay
- DSheldon WhitehouseRI · DemocraticNay
- RRoger F. WickerMS · RepublicanYea
- DRon WydenOR · DemocraticNay
- RTodd YoungIN · RepublicanYea
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S. 3012 and vote against it. 7 signed when it was filed.