The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine Democrats and one independent, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted in favor of cloture. That vote allowed the bill to pass with a simple majority in the final vote.

Their support meant the bill was able to break the 60-vote threshold to avoid a filibuster, 62-38. The nine Democrats are a mix of moderates, close allies of Schumer, members who

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside all Republicans in a key procedural vote to advance House Republicans’ spending bill that would keep the government open for another six months, beyond the midnight shutdown deadline.