Senate vote: Cloture motion // April 7, 2006Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on Peter Cyril Wyche Flory, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on Peter Cyril Wyche Flory, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense
Creator: Spoken For

41 votes, representing 96,547,011 peopleof U.S. adults

52 votes, representing 109,368,834 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 8.5% 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 7.1 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	41	42.9%
Yea	Lost	52	48.6%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	8.5%

Senate This side won even though more senators, and more Americans, voted the other way. Ending debate needed 60 votes here, not a majority.

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