Feingold voted with the Rs on these tax bills...

[Skidmore]

Feingold!!

Nelson, per usual was among the 5 who voted with Rs. Don't know who the other 3 were.

[Graybeard]

1. Rockefeller, Harkin, Durbin, Webb.

[ProSense]

2. That was on the Schumer bill that raised the threshold to $1 million

Roll call: Schumer bill

Baucus bill ($250,000 threshold)

[Uzybone]

3. wrong...here are the no votes

Feingold (D-WI)
Manchin (D-WV)
Nelson (D-NE)
Webb (D-VA)

[stray cat]

5. I suspect Feingold is against any tax cuts - he tends to be fiscally responsibile

I think you will see him vote against extending all the tax cuts as well

[PeaceNikki]

6. I think Feingold wants ALL the tax cuts to expire

[Laelth]

8. I agree, and I think he's got the right idea about that. n/t

-Laelth

[PeaceNikki]

9. Me, too.

[TorchTheWitch]

14. but by voting no we'll end up stuck with welfare for the wealthy

for at least two more years, and at the end of that Repubs may have it easy in making them permanent. Frankly, in this unbelievably shitty economy we can't afford two more years of this shit, and absolutely can't risk making them permanent or grossly extended even more.

I think it's apparent that it's already a done deal to extend the welfare for the wealthy in exchange for another year of unemployment benefits, and I can see Feingold voting no believing those unemployment benefits right now are more important.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. +1!!!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. Harkin said if Obama caves on this, he better hope Palin runs in 2012

[meow mix]

7. we better get used to the words "president" and "palin"

being placed next to each other.. in a conjoined fashion. (shudder)

[pansypoo53219]

10. he is unwilling for any compromise that give one more fucking dollar to the rich

we can't afford any ANY more tax cuts. a generation of voodoo economy has brought us her. NOT ! DOLLAR MORE!.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Yes. And his rationale is that all Bush era tax cuts should expire as well as any

attempt to pass tax cuts. Why? Because they do little to boost the economy. Unemployment benefits and jobs are what's needed.

[ProSense]

13. Feingold is a deficit hawk, that is why he opposes this. Still

the Dems' position is that the middle class tax cuts have to be paid for. People can't claim that deficits don't matter and that we should be stimulating the economy, and then reject things that improve it.

The tax cuts for the rich do not. In addition to adding to the deficit, they do not stimulate the economy.

[tritsofme]

15. The Dem tax bill was not paid for.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/119xx/doc11986/hr4853.pdf

There is an exception in the statuatory PAYGO rules that exempted the middle class tax cuts.