Take this Bill and Shove It

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R.5970 )
Vote Number:	229	Vote Date:	August 3, 2006, 09:41 PM
Required For Majority:	3/5	Vote Result:	Cloture Motion Rejected
Measure Number:	H.R. 5970
Measure Title:	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.

Vote Counts:	YEAs	56
	NAYs	42

Thank goodness. This was a nasty ploy to give the uber-rich not have to pay any taxes on estates, such as Paris Hilton. I'm proud my senators, Durbin and Obama, stood up for the rest of us. As Senator Durbin aptly said:

“This trifecta is a high-stakes gamble with America’s future,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat. “This is the worst special-interest bill I have seen in my time in Congress.” (source: NYT)

Meantime, Wake up Wal-Mart. You must be pleased that bill didn't pass either, although your founder's children wanted this piece of ***t legislation to pass. Sam Walton is probably turning over in his grave.

Now, let's get a real bill for raising the minimium wage and turning it into a living wage minimium. We need to pay workers better for a service economy--the industrial economy is gone.

JRE speaking at Pittsburgh Wake-Up Wal-Mart Rally in less than an hour. Woot!

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