Senate vote: Cloture motion // February 17, 2017

Motion to Invoke Cloture on Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., of Florida, to be Secretary of Commerce

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., of Florida, to be Secretary of Commerce
Creator: Spoken For

66 votes, representing 151,106,819 peopleof U.S. adults

31 votes, representing 93,368,592 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 2.8% 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	66	60.1%
Nay	Lost	31	37.1%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	2.8%

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