S.2343 Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of2012
A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans, and for other purposes.
- People's Vote
- YES
- Gov Vote
- NO
- Outcome
- NO
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Sponsored by
Co-Sponsored by
- Senator Sherrod Brown (OH Democrat)
- Senator Bernard Sanders (VT Independent)
- Senator Tom Udall (NM Democrat)
- Senator Jeff Bingaman (NM Democrat)
- Senator Barbara Boxer (CA Democrat)
- Senator Richard Durbin (IL Democrat)
- Senator Thomas Harkin (IA Democrat)
- Senator Daniel Inouye (HI Democrat)
- Senator Patrick Leahy (VT Democrat)
- Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD Democrat)
- Senator Patty Murray (WA Democrat)
- Senator John Reed (RI Democrat)
- Senator John Rockefeller (WV Democrat)
- Senator Charles Schumer (NY Democrat)
- Senator Debbie Ann Stabenow (MI Democrat)
- Senator Ron Wyden (OR Democrat)
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY Democrat)
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI Democrat)
- Senator Jeff Merkley (OR Democrat)
- Senator Mark Begich (AK Democrat)
- Senator Al Franken (MN Democrat)
- Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT Democrat)



Our Analysis:
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Summary:
4/24/2012--Introduced.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.
Actions:
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Under the order of 5/23/12, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, failed of passage in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 43. Record Vote Number: 113.
Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 365.
Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Roll Call Vote No. 89) withdrawn in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure in Senate.
Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Roll Call Vote No. 89) entered in Senate.
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 45. Record Vote Number: 89.
Introduced in the Senate. Read twice. Ordered Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 365.
Question:
On Passage of the Bill S. 23433/5
Result
Bill Defeated