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Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make the 3.4% interest rate on Direct Stafford loans first disbursed to undergraduate students between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, applicable to Direct Stafford loans first disbursed to undergraduate students between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2013.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require certain shareholders of a subchapter S corporation engaged as a partner in a professional service business to include income or loss attributable to such business in their net earnings from self-employment for employment tax purposes.
Restricts such tax treatment to shareholders whose modified adjusted gross income exceeds a specified amount that varies based on their tax filing status.
Defines a "professional service business" as any trade or business providing services in the fields of health, law, lobbying, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, investment advice or management, or brokerage services.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 2343 as introduced in Senate on Apr 24, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
May 8, 2012Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 24, 2012
Senate May 24, 2012 · the primary vote
Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 2343
Bill Defeated
51 Yea 43 Nay 5 not voting · 1 present
Party-line vote 1 of 94 voting members broke with their own party: 1 Democrat.
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. 2343 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S. 2343 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
69 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.