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Senate Roll Call 219, 112th Congress · December 1, 2011

A bill to create jobs by providing payroll tax relief for middle class families and businesses, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed

51 yea · 49 nayMotion to Proceed Rejected
Democrat49 yea · 1 nay
Republican1 yea · 46 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1917 ↗

Middle Class Tax Cut 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(0.95): Providing payroll tax relief cuts taxes.

    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 (51)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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