Senate vote: Cloture motion // July 11, 2007Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Webb Amdt. No. 2012

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Webb Amdt. No. 2012
Creator: Spoken For

41 votes, representing 88,008,887 peopleof U.S. adults

56 votes, representing 136,282,712 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.3% 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 11.3 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	41	38.7%
Yea	Lost	56	60.0%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.3%

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