Senate Roll Call 178, 112th Congress · October 20, 2011

A bill to repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities.

Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

57 yea · 43 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected

Democrat9 yea · 41 nay

Republican47 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1726 ↗

Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011

Policy area: Taxation — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”
model(0.90): Repealing vendor tax withholding reduces government tax collection mechanisms and lowers tax burdens.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (57)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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