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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PROTOCOL AMENDING TAX CONVENTION WITH LUXEMBOURG
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the next treaty.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
Treaty document No. 111-8, Protocol Amending Tax Convention
with Luxembourg.
Pending:
McConnell amendment No. 916, of a perfecting nature.
McConnell amendment No. 917 (to amendment No. 916) to
change the enactment date.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the amendments to
the treaty are withdrawn.
The amendments (No. 916 and No. 917) were withdrawn.
The clerk will report the resolution of ratification.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follow:
Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the
Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of
the United States of America and the Government of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and
the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on
Income and Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg
(the ``proposed Protocol'') and a related agreement effected
by the exchange of notes also signed on May 20, 2009.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution
of ratification.
Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
There appears to be a sufficient second.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Georgia (Mr. Isakson).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet),
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 93, nays 3, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.]
YEAS--93
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Blunt
Booker
Boozman
Braun
Brown
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Gillibrand
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hirono
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Leahy
Manchin
Markey
McConnell
McSally
Menendez
Merkley
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Schatz
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wicker
Wyden
Young
NAYS--3
Durbin
Lee
Paul
NOT VOTING--4
Bennet
Harris
Isakson
Sanders
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 93, the nays are 3.
Two-thirds of the Senators voting having voted in the affirmative,
the resolution of ratification is agreed to.
The resolution of ratification was agreed to as follows:
Protocol Amending Tax Convention with Luxembourg (Treaty Doc. 111-8)
Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring
therein),
Section 1. Senate Advice and Consent Subject to a
Declaration.
The Senate advises and consents to the ratification of the
Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of
the United States of America and the Government of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and
the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on
Income and Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg
(the ``Protocol'') and the related agreement effected by
exchange of notes on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-8),
subject to the declaration in section 2.
Sec. 2. Declaration.
The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is
subject to the following declaration: The Protocol is self-
executing.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to
reconsider is considered made and laid
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upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the
Senate's action.
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