Failure of Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011 (June 21, 2011)

(by a 49-51 vote, U.S. Senate fails to get beyond a cloture vote on the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011; Act contains repeal of volumetric ethanol excise tax credit; four senators who voted to end the volumetric ethanol excise tax credit, voted against cloture  - Johnson (D-ND), McCaskill (D-MO), Nelson (D-NE) and Klobuchar (D-MN)).