A Des Moines Register article yesterday on the raid of a Postville plant stated that “as many as three-fourths of the company’s workers at the end of last year were using fraudulent Social Security numbers” (Link).

Amendment H-8670 to Senate File 2700 by Tom Sands would have required the Department of Revenue to notify Iowans when it is learned that someone else is using their Social Security numbers. The amendment was voted down on the floor. Below is the vote tally to suspend the rules to consider amendment H-8670 (Link). Republicans are bolded:

The ayes were, 45:
Alons, Anderson, Baudler, Boal, Chambers, Clute, De Boef, Deyoe, Dolecheck, Drake, Forristall, Gayman, Gipp, Granzow, Grassley, Greiner, Heaton, Hoffman, Horbach, Huseman, Jacobs, Kaufmann, Lukan, May, Miller, L., Olson, S., Palmer, Paulsen, Pettengill, Raecker, Rants, Rasmussen, Rayhons, Sands, Schickel, Soderberg, Struyk, Tjepkes, Tymeson, Upmeyer, Van Fossen, Watts, Wiencek, Windschitl, Worthan

The nays were, 50:

Abdul-Samad, Bailey, Bell, Berry, Bukta, Cohoon, Dandekar, Davitt, Foege, Ford, Frevert, Gaskill, Heddens, Hunter, Jacoby, Jochum, Kelley, Kressig, Kuhn, Lensing, Lykam, Mascher, McCarthy, Mertz, Miller, H., Murphy, Spkr., Oldson, Olson, D., Olson, R., Olson, T., Petersen, Quirk, Reichert, Schueller, Shomshor, Smith, Staed, Swaim, Taylor, D., Taylor, T., Thomas, Wendt, Wenthe, Wessel-Kroeschell, Whitaker, Whitead, Winckler, Wise, Zirkelbach, Reasoner

Absent or not voting, 5: Arnold, Jacoby, Roberts, Tomenga, Van Engelenhoven

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