It passed with elbow room — 71 to 26. It needed 67. Voting for were 13 GOP senators and all 58 in the Democratic caucus.
Here’s our brief.
And here’s the indispensable Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy on why ratification should was not the surprise some folks made it out to be,
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