Good to see this pass the though. My confidence that this would get accomplished was correct!
Yes it was, Burr and Ensign decided to play weird games by voting against cloture and then voting in favor of the bill. The majority of your party obviously were still bigoted piles of trash.
Probably sticking to the "not until the budget" thing for the cloture vote, and once it cleared that, they figured they could vote on the bill with a clear fiscal conscience.
Does anybody know why Hatch didn't vote? He was one that I'd have expected to vote YEA.