Worth noting — Senate votes affecting the state of the “Estate Tax”  (or, as Grover Norquist has us saying, the “Death Tax”) –are seen at this and this  spot.  

“To create a deficit-neutral reserve fund for estate tax relief.”, hence passed 51 to 48, with the Republicans plus these Democratic Senators.

Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Tester (D-MT)

Doubly so, to narrow down the “Blue Dog” types even more:   “To provide that no additional estate tax relief beyone that which is already assumed in this resolution, which protects over 99.7 percent of estates from the estate tax, shall be allowed under any deficit-neutral reserve fund unless an equal amount of aggregate tax relief is also provided to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year.” — passed 56 to 43, with the Democrats minus these Senators.

Landrieu (D-LA)
Nelson (D-FL)

Okay?

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