Bring Jobs Home Act
Latest action. clotureThe Senate's only procedure for ending debate over objection. Most legislation needs 60 votes; nominations need a simple majority.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 42. Record Vote Number: 181. (consideration: continuing resolutionA stopgap law funding the government at existing levels when the annual appropriations bills are not done by October 1.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) S5189; text: CR S5189)
Bring Jobs Home Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant business taxpayers a tax credit for up to 20% of insourcing expenses incurred for eliminating a business located outside the United States and relocating it within the United States, and (2) deny a tax deduction for outsourcing expenses incurred in relocating a U.S. business outside the United States. Requires an increase in the taxpayer's employment of full-time employees in the United States in order to claim the tax credit for insourcing expenses.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on July 9, 2012. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 42. Record Vote Number: 181. (consideration: CR S5189; text: CR S5189)
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The record's latest action, on July 19, 2012: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 42. Record Vote Number: 181. (consideration: CR S5189; text: CR S5189)
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Who is behind it?
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced it on July 9, 2012, and 15 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They are 15 Democrats.
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How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on July 9, 2012, 5176 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 5166 days ago, on July 19, 2012.
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Vote history
- SenateCloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 42. Record Vote Number: 181. (consideration: CR S5189; text: CR S5189)
- HouseNot stated in the latest action
- PresidentNot stated in the latest action