House vote: Procedural vote // February 24, 2009

On Approving the Journal

Name: On Approving the Journal
Creator: Spoken For

242 votes, representing 126,442,129 peopleof U.S. adults

163 votes, representing 90,022,861 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 6.7% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Yea	Won	242	54.5%
Nay	Lost	163	38.8%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	6.7%

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them