The GOP plan was approved on a 256-171 vote. Only one Republican, Rep. Timothy Johnson of Illinois, voted against the plan, while 19 Democrats voted to approve.

The roll call was held Wednesday evening shortly after House lawmakers rejected Democrats’ plan to extend the Bush-era tax rates for families making less than $250,000 while letting them rise for top earners. The Democrat-backed plan was the same as the one that narrowly passed the Senate last week.

The votes Wednesday, though, only served to put lawmakers on record as backing the positions that they’ve generally held for months. Unclear is where lawmakers, and President Obama, will go from here to try to avert at least some of the looming tax hikes set to go into effect in January when the Bush-era rates expire.

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