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Senate Roll Call 300, 112th Congress · April 16, 2012

A bill to reduce the deficit by imposing a minimum effective tax rate for high-income taxpayers.

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

51 yea · 45 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 1 nay
Republican1 yea · 44 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2230 ↗

Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012

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 “Raise revenue”

    model(0.95): Imposing a minimum tax rate on high-income taxpayers raises tax revenue.

    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 (45)

Not voting or present (4)

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