Senate vote: Amendment // October 5, 2005

Is the Amendment No. 1955, as modified, germane to H.R.2863?

Name: Is the Amendment No. 1955, as modified, germane to H.R.2863?
Creator: Spoken For

50 votes, representing 97,363,145 peopleof U.S. adults

49 votes, representing 114,296,354 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.5% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the Senate. The winning side fell 4.7 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	50	45.3%
Yea	Lost	49	53.2%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.5%

Senate The winning side was inferred from the vote count because the chamber's result wording could not be classified.

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