The U.S. Senate voted 74 – 26 in favor of Budget Control Act of 2011 on Tuesday afternoon. The measure needed 60 votes to pass. 

During the roll call vote, Sen. Daniel Akaka posted to Twitter that he would support the act.

“I am supporting this compromise with deep reservations,” Akaka wrote in a statement released by his office. “We must avoid placing the nation’s credit and our fragile economic recovery at risk.”

Sen. Daniel Inouye also voted in favor of the measure. 

“This is not a deal that I take any great pride in but it is something we had to do for the good of the country,” Inouye said in a statement released by his office. “These cuts, $2.1 trillion over the next decade, are deep and significant and government services will suffer because of them. This proposal contains no new revenue.  But what can we expect? We were negotiating with a group of people who would see the country default before they backed off their campaign promises.”

The senators’ support came after Reps. Colleen Hanabusa and Mazie Hirono voted for the measure in the House on Monday night. 

President Barack Obama is poised to offer remarks about its passage shortly.