Senate vote: Cloture motion // February 6, 2014Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. No. 2714 to S.1845

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. No. 2714 to S.1845
Creator: Spoken For

40 votes, representing 97,860,983 peopleof U.S. adults

58 votes, representing 144,693,253 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 0.9% 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 10.0 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	40	40.0%
Yea	Lost	58	59.1%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	0.9%

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