(from Memo to Members from the National Low Income Housing Coalition) After another week of "slimming" and trimming H.R. 4213, the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010, the Senate leadership still had not garnered the 60 votes needed to pass the bill by week's end. After reducing the cost of the overall bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called for a cloture vote on Thursday, June 17. The vote failed 56-40. As business closed on Friday, the Senate passed a short-term fix to prevent cuts to Medicare payments to doctors as a stand-alone bill.