Lamar Alexander on Taxes

RepublicanTN

Taxes249 votes · 74.3/100 consistent

Raise revenueCut taxes

419 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 249 of them counted toward the score above: 99 toward “Raise revenue” and 150 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 170 did not count: 163 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 7 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2003-05-15	To expand the refundability of the child tax credit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2003-05-15	To provide for additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment compensation and to provide for a program of temporary enhanced regular unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To ensure that the limit on refundability shall not apply to the additional $400 child credit for 2003, to make the dividend exclusion effective for taxable years beginning in 2003, and to eliminate the increase in the dividend exclusion from 10 percent to 20 percent of dividends over $500.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To urge the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Economic Committee to hold hearings and consider legislation providing for a flat tax.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits and to offset the revenue loss.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2003-05-15	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2003-05-14	To ensure that Social Security surpluses are not raided in order to fund tax cuts on corporate dividends.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2003-04-09	An original bill to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, to improve the public disclosure of activities of exempt organizations, and to enhance the ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building assets, and for other purposesS. 476 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Cut taxes
2003-04-09	To exclude 25 percent of gain on sales or exchanges of land or water interests to any nonprofit entity for any charitable purpose.S. 476 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Raise revenue
2003-03-27	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for members of the uniformed services in determining the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence and to restore the tax exempt status of death gratuity payments to members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.H.R. 1307 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Cut taxes
2003-03-26	To extend the child tax credit until the year 2013.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2003-03-25	To express the sense of the Senate on low income programs and the income tax on certain Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-03-25	To repeal a 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2003-03-25	To increase Mandatory Child Care Spending by $4.6 billion over five years and $9.1 billion over ten years by reducing the tax cut.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Cut taxes
2003-03-25	To allow full access to Tricare for National Guard and Reserve Personnel and their families on a continual basis, offset with reductions to the tax cut.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Cut taxes
2003-03-21	To reduce tax cut to $350 billion.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Cut taxes
2003-03-21	To increase FY 2004 funding for the discretionary programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs by $1,019,000,000, so it matches the level proposed by a coalition of veterans groups in the Independent Budget; to decrease the deficit by a similar amount; and to use the unreconciled tax cut to pay for it.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Cut taxes
2003-03-21	To revise the resolution to accommodate in reconciliations legislation a partially refundable tax credit of up to $5,000 for eligible expenses for individuals with long term or chronic care needs or their family caregivers who pay these expenses; in which "eligible expenses" shall include prescription drugs, medical bills, durable medical equipment, home health care custodial care, respite care, adult day care, transportation to chronic care or medical facilities, specialized therapy (including occupational therapy, physical therapy, or rehabilitational therapy), other specialized services for children (including day care for children with special needs) and other long term care related expenses as defined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; and in which "individuals with long term or chronic care needs" of daily living, individuals with severe cognitive impairment, individualS.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Raise revenue
2003-03-18	To redirect $1.214 trillion in revenues that would have been lost by implementing the President's entire tax cut agenda into a reserve fund to strengthen the Social Security trust funds over the long-term.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Cut taxes

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Raise revenue / Cut taxes axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.