U.S. Senate · March 21, 2026
Roll call 60 · 119th Congress, session 2
S.Amdt. 4421 — To protect women and girls in athletics.
A vote to end debate and allow a final vote In the Senate, debate can continue indefinitely unless 60 senators vote to end it. This vote is that attempt. It decides whether the Senate may vote on the thing at all — not whether the thing passes. A failed cloture vote usually ends the matter without anyone ever voting on its merits.
Blocked
49 yes 41 no
The Senate said no · recorded as “Cloture Motion Rejected”
Needed three-fifths (60 of 100 senators), the bar for ending debate.
What was being voted on
119-SAMDT-4421 — To protect women and girls in athletics.
The purpose of this amendment, titled SAVE AMERICAN SPORTS, is to change the Education Amendments of 1972. It aims to add the following rules for any recipient of Federal funds that operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities: It would be a violation to allow a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. Sex would be recognized based only on a person's genetics and reproductive biology at birth.