“45 to 50? Do we realize that it only took 3 spineless Republicans to vote Yea to screw the rest of America?”
Not exactly....cloture requires 60 votes, so it fell 15 votes shy of passage.
“Not exactly....cloture requires 60 votes, so it fell 15 votes shy of passage.”
Not accurate. Some Senators changed their original YEAS to NAYS. eg Rockefeller