PROMESA, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, was signed into law by the president last week after receiving resounding votes in both U.S. the House of Representatives and Senate.
The details on the vote show that it truly was a bipartisan vote. PROMESA won by a strong majority, which can be seen in breakdowns by state and by political party, as shown below.
In the Senate, these were the results:
- Yes votes: 68
- No votes: 30
- Abstentions: 2
The roll call below shows the votes in a state by state breakdown.
| Alabama: | Sessions (R-AL), Yea | Shelby (R-AL), Nay |
| Alaska: | Murkowski (R-AK), Nay | Sullivan (R-AK), Yea |
| Arizona: | Flake (R-AZ), Yea | McCain (R-AZ), Yea |
| Arkansas: | Boozman (R-AR), Nay | Cotton (R-AR), Nay |
| California: | Boxer (D-CA), Nay | Feinstein (D-CA), Yea |
| Colorado: | Bennet (D-CO), Yea | Gardner (R-CO), Yea |
| Connecticut: | Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea | Murphy (D-CT), Yea |
| Delaware: | Carper (D-DE), Yea | Coons (D-DE), Yea |
| Florida: | Nelson (D-FL), Yea | Rubio (R-FL), Yea |
| Georgia: | Isakson (R-GA), Yea | Perdue (R-GA), Nay |
| Hawaii: | Hirono (D-HI), Yea | Schatz (D-HI), Yea |
| Idaho: | Crapo (R-ID), Yea | Risch (R-ID), Yea |
| Illinois: | Durbin (D-IL), Yea | Kirk (R-IL), Yea |
| Indiana: | Coats (R-IN), Yea | Donnelly (D-IN), Yea |
| Iowa: | Ernst (R-IA), Nay | Grassley (R-IA), Nay |
| Kansas: | Moran (R-KS), Nay | Roberts (R-KS), Yea |
| Kentucky: | McConnell (R-KY), Yea | Paul (R-KY), Yea |
| Louisiana: | Cassidy (R-LA), Yea | Vitter (R-LA), Yea |
| Maine: | Collins (R-ME), Yea | King (I-ME), Yea |
| Maryland: | Cardin (D-MD), Yea | Mikulski (D-MD), Yea |
| Massachusetts: | Markey (D-MA), Nay | Warren (D-MA), Nay |
| Michigan: | Peters (D-MI), Yea | Stabenow (D-MI), Yea |
| Minnesota: | Franken (D-MN), Yea | Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea |
| Mississippi: | Cochran (R-MS), Yea | Wicker (R-MS), Nay |
| Missouri: | Blunt (R-MO), Yea | McCaskill (D-MO), Yea |
| Montana: | Daines (R-MT), Nay | Tester (D-MT), Nay |
| Nebraska: | Fischer (R-NE), Yea | Sasse (R-NE), Nay |
| Nevada: | Heller (R-NV), Nay | Reid (D-NV), Yea |
| New Hampshire: | Ayotte (R-NH), Yea | Shaheen (D-NH), Yea |
| New Jersey: | Booker (D-NJ), Nay | Menendez (D-NJ), Nay |
| New Mexico: | Heinrich (D-NM), Yea | Udall (D-NM), Yea |
| New York: | Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea | Schumer (D-NY), Yea |
| North Carolina: | Burr (R-NC), Yea | Tillis (R-NC), Nay |
| North Dakota: | Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea | Hoeven (R-ND), Yea |
| Ohio: | Brown (D-OH), Nay | Portman (R-OH), Nay |
| Oklahoma: | Inhofe (R-OK), Yea | Lankford (R-OK), Yea |
| Oregon: | Merkley (D-OR), Nay | Wyden (D-OR), Yea |
| Pennsylvania: | Casey (D-PA), Yea | Toomey (R-PA), Yea |
| Rhode Island: | Reed (D-RI), Yea | Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea |
| South Carolina: | Graham (R-SC), Yea | Scott (R-SC), Nay |
| South Dakota: | Rounds (R-SD), Yea | Thune (R-SD), Yea |
| Tennessee: | Alexander (R-TN), Yea | Corker (R-TN), Yea |
| Texas: | Cornyn (R-TX), Yea | Cruz (R-TX), Nay |
| Utah: | Hatch (R-UT), Yea | Lee (R-UT), Nay |
| Vermont: | Leahy (D-VT), Yea | Sanders (I-VT), Nay |
| Virginia: | Kaine (D-VA), Yea | Warner (D-VA), Not Voting |
| Washington: | Cantwell (D-WA), Nay | Murray (D-WA), Nay |
| West Virginia: | Capito (R-WV), Nay | Manchin (D-WV), Not Voting |
| Wisconsin: | Baldwin (D-WI), Nay | Johnson (R-WI), Yea |
| Wyoming: | Barrasso (R-WY), Yea | Enzi (R-WY), Yea |
In the House of Representatives, the law passed by the comfortable margin of 297 to 127.
The state by state breakdown below shows the percentage of votes for and against. The first number shows the total percentage of yes votes, followed by the percentage for each of the political parties. So for Alabama, 3 out of 7 or 43% voted yes: 100% of the 1 Democrats and 33.3% of the 6 Republicans voted yes.
- Alabama: 3/7 (43%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 2/6 R (33.3%)
- Alaska: 1/1 (100%) voted yes
- 1/1 R (100%)
- Arizona: 7/9 (78%) voted yes
- 4/4 D (100%)
- 3/5 R (60%)
- Arkansas: 3/4 (75%) voted yes
- 3/4 R (75%)
- California: 41/51 (80%) voted yes
- 32/37 D (86%)
- 9/14 R (64%)
- 2 D members did not vote
- Colorado: 5/7 (71%) voted yes
- 3/3 D (100%)
- 2/4 R (50%)
- Connecticut: 5/5 (100%) voted yes
- 5/5 D (100%)
- Delaware: 1/1 (100%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- Florida: 18/27 (66.6%) voted yes
- 8/10 D (80%)
- 10/ 17 R (59%)
- Georgia: 11/14 (79%) vote yes
- 4/4 D (100%)
- 7/10 R (60%)
- Hawaii: 1/1 (100%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 1 D member did not vote.
- Idaho: 2/2 (100%) voted yes
- 2/2 R (100%)
- Illinois: 12/18 (66.6%) voted yes
- 6/10 D (60%)
- 6/8 R (75%)
- Indiana: 8/9 (89%) voted yes
- 2/2 D (100%)
- 6/7 R (85%)
- Iowa: 2/4 (50%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 1/3 R (33.3%)
- Kansas: 0/4 (0%) voted yes
- 0/4 R (0%)
- Kentucky: 4/6 (66.6%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 3/5 R (60%)
- Louisiana: 2/6 (33.3%)voted yes
- 0/1 D (0%),
- 2/5 R (40%)
- Maine: 1/2 (50%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 0/1 R (0%)
- Maryland: 8/8 (100%) voted yes
- 7/7 D (100%)
- 1/1 R (100%)
- Massachusetts: 8/9 (89%) voted yes
- 8/9 D (89%)
- Michigan: 11/14(79%) voted yes
- 5/5 D (100%)
- 6/9 R (66.6%)
- Minnesota: 4/8(50%) voted yes
- 2/5 D (40%)
- 2/3 R (66.6%)
- Mississippi: 2/4 (50%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 1/3 R (33.3%)
- Missouri: 4/7 (57%) voted yes
- 2/2 D (100%)
- 2/5 R (40%)
- 1 R member did not vote.
- Montana: 2/4 (50%) voted yes
- 0/1 D (0%)
- 2/3 R (66.6%)
- Nebraska: 2/3(66.6%) voted yes
- 0/1 D (0%)
- 2/2 R (100%)
- Nevada: 2/3 (66.6%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 1/2 R (50%)
- 1 R member did not vote.
- New Hampshire: 1/2 (50%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 0/1 R (0%)
- New Jersey: 7/10 (70%) voted yes
- 3/4 D (75%)
- 4/6 R (66%)
- 2 D members did not vote
- New Mexico: 2/3 (66.6%) voted yes
- 2/2 D (100%)
- 0/1 R (0%)
- New York: 24/27 (89%) voted yes
- 18/18 D (100%)
- 6/9 R (66.6%)
- North Carolina: 7/13 (54%) voted yes
- 3/3 D (100%)
- 4/10 R (40%)
- North Dakota: 1/1 (100%) voted yes
- 1/1 R (100%)
- Ohio: 9/16 (56%) voted yes
- 2/4 D (50%)
- 7/12 R (70%)
- Oklahoma: 3/5 (60%) voted yes
- 3/5 R (60%)
- Oregon: 5/5(100%) voted yes
- 4/4 D (100%)
- 1/1 R (100%)
- Pennsylvania: 9/17 (47%) voted yes
- 2/5 D (40%)
- 7/12 R (58%)
- 1 R member did not vote.
- Rhode Island: 2/2 (100%) voted yes
- 2/2 D (100%)
- South Carolina: 3/7 (43%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- 2/6 R (33.3%)
- South Dakota: 1/1(100%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- Tennessee: 4/8 (50%) voted yes
- 2/2 D (100%)
- 2/6 R (33.3%)
- 1 R member did not vote.
- Texas: 21/35 (60%) voted yes
- 9/10 D (90%)
- 12/25 R (48%)
- 1 D member did not vote.
- Utah: 4/4 (100%) voted yes
- 4/4 R (100%)
- Vermont: 1/1 (100%) voted yes
- 1/1 D (100%)
- Virginia: 6/11 (54%) voted yes
- 3/3 D (100%)
- 3/8 R (38%)
- Washington: 7/9 (78%) voted yes
- 6/6 D (100%)
- 1/3 R (33.3%)
- 1 R member did not vote.
- West Virginia: 1/3 (33.3%) voted yes
- 1/3 R (33.3%)
- Wisconsin: 8/8 (100%) voted yes
- 3/3 D (100%)
- 5/5 R (100%)
- Wyoming: 1/1(100%) voted yes
- 1/1 R (100%)
Puerto Rico, as a territory, had no vote in either the House or the Senate. It’s 3.5 million U.S. citizen residents are bound by the law but did not have a voice in its final passage.
