3.0.0 749 2019-11-15T21:58:48Z 2022-02-08T17:27:15Z Senate S S 2011-04-06 112 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing ssju21 Constitution Subcommittee Hearings by 2011-04-12T18:35:41Z ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-04-06T22:55:09Z 2011-04-12 ssju21 Constitution Subcommittee Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. Committee 2011-04-06 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2202) IntroReferral 2011-04-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. N B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2011-04-06 True C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2011-04-06 True F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN 2011-04-06 True H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2011-04-06 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2011-04-06 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2011-04-06 True L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2011-04-06 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2011-04-06 True M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2011-04-06 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2011-04-06 True S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2011-04-06 True T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2011-04-06 True Taxation Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Government trust funds Public contracts and procurement Sales and excise taxes Senate Taxation 00 2011-04-06 Introduced in Senate 2011-04-12T15:24:37Z Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on payments made pursuant to a U.S. government contract to any person that is not a state or local government, a foreign nation, or a tax-exempt organization and that has contracts with the U.S. government in excess of $10 million. Sets the rate of such tax imposed on any payment to a qualified person under any such contract at 0.50% of the amount paid and limits the aggregate annual amount of tax so imposed for any calendar year to not more than $500,000.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the tax revenues raised by this Act should be used for the financing of a Fair Elections Fund and the public financing of Senate elections.

]]> Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011 Display Title Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a revenue source for fair elections financing of Senate campaigns by providing an excise tax on amounts paid pursuant to contracts with the United States Government. Introduced in Senate 2011-04-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s749is/xml/BILLS-112s749is.xml 2011-04-12 Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.