Senate vote: Amendment // January 29, 2009

DeMint Amdt. No. 85

Name: DeMint Amdt. No. 85
Creator: Spoken For

58 votes, representing 149,417,580 peopleof U.S. adults

40 votes, representing 78,021,552 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 2.0% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	58	64.4%
Yea	Lost	40	33.6%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	2.0%

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