Senate · 114th Congress · Session 1 · Roll 280

Senate vote senate-114-1-280

No related bill listed for this roll call.

What is this vote?

Whether the Senate should begin debate

Official question: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

Date: 10/20/2015

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 10/20/2015

Chamber

Senate

Data source

U.S. Senate (roll call votes)

Congress / Session

114 / 1

Roll number

280

Record identifier

senate-114-1-280

This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed No bill link is listed for this roll call in the source feed. Recorded outcome: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected.

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