US Senate Roll Call Votes: Here are the 4 Dems (+ Lieberman) who voted against middle-class tax cuts

[Amerigo Vespucci]

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 2nd Session

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00259

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on Amdt. No. 4728 )
Vote Number: 259 Vote Date: December 4, 2010, 10:57 AM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 4728 to S.Amdt. 4727 to H.R. 4853 (Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2010, Part III)
Statement of Purpose: Of a perfecting nature.
Vote Counts: YEAs 53
NAYs 37
Not Voting 10

Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

[Wounded Bear]

1. Reconciliation.....

The middle class portion will increase the deficit, at least in the short term.

Pass it on reconciliation. That's what the Repubs would do.

:shrug:

[HereSince1628]

2. Same storyline here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9688541

[gateley]

3. Who were the chicken shits who didn't vote?

ETA: Never mind, here they are:
Not Voting - 10
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Vitter (R-LA)

They wouldn't have helped, but it galls me to think they were smug enough to know their votes weren't needed!

[emulatorloo]

4. On edit - This is for the 1 million dollar threshold bill

that Schumer was behind

[ProSense]

5. This is not the middle-class tax cuts vote

This is the vote on extending tax cuts for incomes up to $ 1 million. Schumer's bill

Baucus bill ($250,000 threshold)

[emulatorloo]

6. Thanks - confirming this is the 1 Million Dollar Threshold

Senate Rejects Tax-Cut Proposals as Talks Continue
December 04, 2010, 2:07 PM EST
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-04/senate-rejects-tax-cut-proposals-as-talks-continue.html


Democratic Opposition

Five Senate Democrats and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut joined all present Republicans today in opposing the first measure setting the tax-cut threshold at $250,000. They included Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Jim Webb of Virginia, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

Lieberman and Feingold also voted with three other Democrats in opposing the $1 million threshold They included Tom Harkin of Iowa, Richard Durbin of Illinois, and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.