Senate
Democrats
August 3, 2006 08:41 PM
Result: Rejected (56-42, 2 members not voting, 3/5 threshold)
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Senate Roll Call Vote #00229
On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R.5970; A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.Result: Rejected (56-42, 2 members not voting, 3/5 threshold)
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