[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 17, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4878-S4879]
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the treaty are withdrawn.
  The amendments (No. 916 and No. 917) were withdrawn.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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