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110th Congress / Senate / 2nd session / Vote 76

  • Question: On the Amendment
  • Bill: S CON RES 70
  • Vote description: Landrieu Amdt. No. 4378; To protect family businesses and farmers without increasing our nation's debt by providing for an estate tax that sets the exemption at $5 million and the rate at 35 percent, with the benefits of the exemption recaptured for estates over $100 million, paid for by closing tax loopholes that allow offshore deferral of compensation and transactions entered into solely for the purpose of avoiding taxation.
  • Vote type: 1/2 (Help)
  • Result: Rejected, 23-77.
  • Date/time: March 13, 2008, 10:44 p.m.
  • Amendment num: S.Amdt. 4378
  • Republican majority opinion: No (Help)
  • Democrat majority opinion: No (Help)

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