Senate vote: Cloture motion // February 1, 2010Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of M. Patricia Smith, to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of M. Patricia Smith, to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor
Creator: Spoken For

60 votes, representing 151,349,945 peopleof U.S. adults

32 votes, representing 61,961,757 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 9.1% 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	60	64.5%
Nay	Lost	32	26.4%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	9.1%

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