Exhibit 909

Senate roll call 179, S. 3369 (DISCLOSE Act of 2012), cloture on motion to proceed

Exhibit 909 · Roll call vote

Senate roll call 179, S. 3369 (DISCLOSE Act of 2012), cloture on motion to proceed

Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (51-44, 3/5 majority required)

Rejected 51-44. Democrats 49 yea 1 nay (1 not voting); independents 2 yea; Republicans 43 nay (4 not voting). Party counts tabulated from the vote XML member records.

Source: U.S. Senate (Secretary of the Senate roll call data)
Date: 16 July 2012
Quoted from: roll call XML, element vote_result_text
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1122/vote_112_2_00179.xml
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding POL-5.13: Primary record The Senate failed to reach cloture on the DISCLOSE Act on 27 July 2010 (57 to 41), 23 September 2010 (59 to 39), 16 July 2012 (51 to 44), 17 July 2012 (53 to 45) and 22 September 2022 (49 to 49). In each vote every Republican voting voted nay, and every Democrat and independent voting voted yea except one Democrat in July 2010 and one in July 2012.