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Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain employers a tax credit for 10% of the excess (if any) of: (1) the wages and compensation paid to their employees in 2012; over (2) the amount of such wages paid in 2011, up to a maximum amount of $5 million. Extends for one year the 100% bonus depreciation allowance for business assets. Increases the amount of alternative minimum tax (AMT) credits that corporate taxpayers may elect to accelerate in a taxable year in lieu of claiming bonus depreciation.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 2237 as introduced in Senate on Mar 26, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jul 10, 2012Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJul 12, 2012
Senate Jul 12, 2012 · the primary vote
Motion to Table Reid Amdt. No. 2524
Motion to Table Agreed to
73 Yea 24 Nay 3 not voting
Crossed both parties 21 of 97 voting members broke with their own party: 21 Republicans.
DemocratsIndependentsOtherRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S. 2237 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S. 2237 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
186 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.