On September 18, the U.S. Senate was unable to vote on S1257 due to a filibuster. A motion to stop the filibuster received 57 votes, but it needed 60 to succeed. S1257 would have expanded the U.S. House from 435 members to 437, and given the District of Columbia a seat, and another seat for Utah. If the bill had passed, the electoral college would have gone from 538 members to 539 (with Utah getting that extra electoral college vote). That would have eased the danger that there might be a tie in the Electoral College in the future. The danger of a tie vote in the Electoral College was largely forgotten in today’s Senate debate.