Senate vote: Cloture motion // September 10, 2015Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on McConnell Amdt. No. 2640

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on McConnell Amdt. No. 2640
Creator: Spoken For

42 votes, representing 118,486,229 peopleof U.S. adults

58 votes, representing 128,748,492 peopleof U.S. adults

Share of U.S. adults represented, the Senate. The winning side fell 2.1 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	42	47.9%
Yea	Lost	58	52.1%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	0.0%

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