The Senate voted 81 to 17 yesterday to repeal the requirement under ObamaCare that businesses file a form 1099 with the IRS for any vendor they pay more than $600 a year. President Obama has said he favored the repeal. Here are the names of the 17 senators who voted to keep that recordkeeping burden in place:
Akaka (D-HI)
Carper (D-DE)
Durbin (D-IL)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)Inouye (D-HI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Quite a crew.