(plus a couple of turncoat Democrats :mad: ) But this is now on record, for opponents to use to point to how Republicans are looking after the millionaires:
Senate rejects symbolic measure on ‘shared sacrifice’
The symbolic measure, introduced last month by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), failed to secure the 60 votes necessary to end debate. Fifty-one members, all members of the Senate Democratic caucus, voted in favor of proceeding on the measure, while 49 senators – including 47 Republicans and two Democrats, Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) – voted “no.”
The measure would have expressed the “sense of the Senate that any agreement to reduce the budget deficit should require that those earning $1,000,000 or more per year make a more meaningful contribution to the deficit reduction effort.”
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Democrats had been hoping to use the non-binding measure to further their case that tax increases must be included in a bipartisan debt-limit agreement.
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"Once again (Sen.) Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has gone along to get along with Washington, D.C. Republicans’ efforts to protect the wealthiest Americans and special interests," Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh said in a statement targeting the Bay State's junior senator.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/senate-rejects-symbolic-measure-on-shared-sacrifice/2011/07/13/gIQAU8qhCI_blog.html