Immediately after the vote, Senator H. Styles Bridges, a McCarthy supporter, argued that the resolution was "not a censure resolution" because the word "condemn" rather than "censure" was used in the final draft.
在投票后，麦卡锡的支持者参议员H·斯泰尔斯·布里奇斯称决议“不是谴责决议”，因为终稿使用的是词汇“condemn”而不是“censure”。