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↵↵Last year, the last time the Senate voted on an Iran war powers resolution, the motion to discharge fell short 47-53, with Fetterman voting against it and Paul the only Republican "yes."
↵↵Senators voted 52-47 to discharge a war powers resolution from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that would bar military action "within or against" Venezuela absent a specific congressional authorization
The chamber overwhelmingly rejected the Sinema-Tester measure, 10-87, but it gave wavering Democrats cover to reject the Lee amendment, which went down on a 47-50 vote.
Murphy, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said if the Lee amendment were attached it would sabotage the omnibus in the House later this week, including $47 billion
Lee’s amendment on the same issue last month, as part of a stopgap funding measure, was defeated on a vote of 46-47, with seven senators absent.
Mike Lee, R-Utah, which would have denied funding to enforce any federal vaccine mandates, was shot down on a vote of 46-47.
Senate Republicans laid bare their political playbook for next year’s midterms during a lengthy “vote-a-rama” session on the fiscal 2022 budget resolution in which they offered 39 of the 47 amendments
The final bill passed the Senate on an 87-13 vote and the House on a 369-47 vote. Stabenow will be the only one of the four still in Congress in 2021.
But as the messaging vote arrived Thursday, Republicans couldn’t talk to reporters about Democrats blocking their bill — which fell short on a 52-47 procedural vote with only one GOP senator in opposition
The motion to proceed was agreed to, 47-42.
The outcome was hardly in doubt, since the Senate had agreed to advance Vought on a procedural vote of 47-44 just before the Independence Day recess.
Vought appears likely to win confirmation in the Senate, where Republicans have a 53-47 margin.
On paper, the math for the 44-year-old Vought is easier than it was in 2018: There are now two more Republicans in the Senate, holding a 53-47 margin.
Potential scenarios All 47 Democrats are expected to vote in favor of considering witnesses and documents, so the various scenarios on how the vote will play out only involve deviations in Republican
The next two contests in 2016 were won by Clinton, who bested Sanders narrowly in Nevada (53 percent to 47 percent) but clobbered him in South Carolina (73 percent to 26 percent.)
Assuming all 47 Senate Democrats vote in favor of the disapproval resolutions, the four Republicans would provide enough support to send the resolutions to the Democratic House, where they are expected
With the 47-member bloc of the Democratic caucus and the 13 Republicans who pledged their support last year, that threshold is in sight.
The contrast between Eisenhower and Kennedy was obvious, as was the charisma gap between the Massachusetts Democrat and his Republican opponent, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was only 47 but represented
Passed 51-47 (R 50-0; D 1-45; I 0-2) on April 18, 2018.