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S. 953Student Loan Affordability Act
- Sponsor
- Jack Reed [D-RI]
- Cosponsors
- 28 · 27 Democrats · 1 Independent
- Policy area
- Taxation
- Latest action
- Jun 6, 2013 · Cloture on the motion to proceed to measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 46. Record Vote Number: 143. (consideration: CR S3977-3978)
- IntroducedMay 14, 2013
- Passed the SenateNot yet reached
- Passed the HouseNot yet reached
- Sent to the PresidentNot yet reached
- Became lawNot yet reached
Student Loan Affordability Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend until June 30, 2015, existing interest rates for loans made to undergraduate students under the Federal Direct Stafford Loan program.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify rules for required distributions from tax-exempt pension plans to an employee who dies before such employee's entire interest is distributed to require such interest to be distributed within five years after the death of such employee, subject to exceptions for an eligible designated beneficiary and surviving spouse of such employee. Defines "eligible designated beneficiary" to include a disabled or chronically-ill individual. Exempts from such modification a binding annuity contract in effect on the enactment date of this Act.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) limit the deductibility of interest payments made by a corporation which is an expatriated entity to a related person; (2) expand the definition of "crude oil" for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum to include crude oil condensates, natural gasoline, any bitumen or bituminous mixture, and any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture; (3) eliminate the requirement that such crude oil be produced in a well located in the United States; and (4) make permanent the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund financing rate.
Exempts the budgetary effects of this Act from the requirements of specified PAYGO scorecards.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 953 as introduced in Senate on May 14, 2013. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Senate Jun 6, 2013
On the Cloture Motion
Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S. 953
Cloture Motion Rejected
51 Yea 46 Nay 2 not voting
Party-line vote 1 of 97 voting members broke with their own party: 1 Democrat.
How the chamber split
DemocratsIndependentsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
Showing 99 of 99 members
- RAlexanderTN · RepublicanNay
- RAyotteNH · RepublicanNay
- DTammy BaldwinWI · DemocraticYea
- RJohn BarrassoWY · RepublicanNay
- DBaucusMT · DemocraticYea
- DBegichAK · DemocraticYea
- DMichael F. BennetCO · DemocraticYea
- DRichard BlumenthalCT · DemocraticYea
- RBluntMO · RepublicanNay
- RJohn BoozmanAR · RepublicanNay
- DBoxerCA · DemocraticYea
- DBrownOH · DemocraticYea
- RBurrNC · RepublicanNay
- DMaria CantwellWA · DemocraticYea
- DCardinMD · DemocraticYea
- DCarperDE · DemocraticYea
- DCaseyPA · DemocraticYea
- RChamblissGA · RepublicanNay
- RCoatsIN · RepublicanNot voting
- RCoburnOK · RepublicanNay
- RCochranMS · RepublicanNay
- RSusan M. CollinsME · RepublicanRunning in 2026Nay
- DChristopher A. CoonsDE · DemocraticRunning in 2026Yea
- RCorkerTN · RepublicanNay
- RJohn CornynTX · RepublicanRunning in 2026Nay
- DCowanMA · DemocraticYea
- RMike CrapoID · RepublicanNay
- RTed CruzTX · RepublicanNay
- DDonnellyIN · DemocraticYea
- DRichard J. DurbinIL · DemocraticYea
- REnziWY · RepublicanNay
- DFeinsteinCA · DemocraticYea
- RDeb FischerNE · RepublicanNay
- RFlakeAZ · RepublicanNay
- DFrankenMN · DemocraticYea
- DKirsten E. GillibrandNY · DemocraticYea
- RGrahamSC · RepublicanNay
- RChuck GrassleyIA · RepublicanNay
- DHaganNC · DemocraticYea
- DHarkinIA · DemocraticYea
- RHatchUT · RepublicanNay
- DMartin HeinrichNM · DemocraticYea
- DHeitkampND · DemocraticYea
- RHellerNV · RepublicanNay
- DMazie K. HironoHI · DemocraticYea
- RJohn HoevenND · RepublicanNay
- RInhofeOK · RepublicanNay
- RIsaksonGA · RepublicanNay
- RJohannsNE · RepublicanNay
- DJohnsonSD · DemocraticYea
- RRon JohnsonWI · RepublicanNay
- DTim KaineVA · DemocraticYea
- IAngus S. King, Jr.ME · IndependentNay
- RKirkIL · RepublicanNay
- DAmy KlobucharMN · DemocraticYea
- DLandrieuLA · DemocraticYea
- DLeahyVT · DemocraticYea
- RMike LeeUT · RepublicanNay
- DLevinMI · DemocraticYea
- DManchinWV · DemocraticBroke with party (Democratic majority)Nay
- RMcCainAZ · RepublicanNay
- DMcCaskillMO · DemocraticNot voting
- RMitch McConnellKY · RepublicanNay
- DMenendezNJ · DemocraticYea
- DJeff MerkleyOR · DemocraticRunning in 2026Yea
- DMikulskiMD · DemocraticYea
- RJerry MoranKS · RepublicanNay
- RLisa MurkowskiAK · RepublicanNay
- DChristopher MurphyCT · DemocraticYea
- DPatty MurrayWA · DemocraticYea
- DNelsonFL · DemocraticYea
- RRand PaulKY · RepublicanNay
- RPortmanOH · RepublicanNay
- DPryorAR · DemocraticYea
- DJack ReedRI · DemocraticRunning in 2026Yea
- DReidNV · DemocraticYea
- RJames E. RischID · RepublicanRunning in 2026Nay
- RRobertsKS · RepublicanNay
- DRockefellerWV · DemocraticYea
- RRubioFL · RepublicanNay
- IBernard SandersVT · IndependentYea
- DBrian SchatzHI · DemocraticYea
- DCharles E. SchumerNY · DemocraticYea
- RTim ScottSC · RepublicanNay
- RSessionsAL · RepublicanNay
- DJeanne ShaheenNH · DemocraticYea
- RShelbyAL · RepublicanNay
- DStabenowMI · DemocraticYea
- DTesterMT · DemocraticYea
- RJohn ThuneSD · RepublicanNay
- RToomeyPA · RepublicanNay
- DUdallCO · DemocraticYea
- DUdallNM · DemocraticYea
- RVitterLA · RepublicanNay
- DMark R. WarnerVA · DemocraticRunning in 2026Yea
- DElizabeth WarrenMA · DemocraticYea
- DSheldon WhitehouseRI · DemocraticYea
- RRoger F. WickerMS · RepublicanNay
- DRon WydenOR · DemocraticYea
99 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. 953 and vote against it. 11 signed when it was filed.