The Senate leadership attempted to invoke cloture, and they were trounced, 46 to 53 against. It needed 60 to move on, and it fell 14 votes short. All things being equal, it did not even have the fifty votes which would have been needed for final passage had cloture been invoked.

After the vote, dingy Harry promised that the bill would eventually be back. Yeah, we’ll see. But maybe they’ll take time and craft a rational bill next time, not cobble together a lunatic mess like was just defeated.