Thread: Tax Compromise Achieves Cloture

Overwhelmingly. I think Senators Ensign and Coburn were the only ones to vote against it. Kudos to them!

Now it's on to the real votes.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/13/b ... cuts-bill/

Breaking: Senate reaches cloture on tax cuts bill

posted at 4:54 pm on December 13, 2010 by Allahpundit
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The vote hasn’t been gaveled yet — Reid’s holding it open for several more hours to give stragglers a chance to get back to the Capitol after leaving for the weekend — but they’re already at 60 and switchers are unlikely. No surprises there: The Journal predicted yesterday that they’d end up with 65-70 votes, notwithstanding the growing tea-party backlash to the subsidies jammed in the bill. As of this writing, it’s actually 69-10, with nine of the 10 no’s coming from Democrats. (Fun fact: Kirsten Gillibrand, who attended the launch of the new centrist “No Labelsâ€