Evan Bayh on Taxes

DemocratIN

Taxes252 votes · 78.3/100 consistent

Raise revenueCut taxes

453 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 252 of them counted toward the score above: 118 toward “Raise revenue” and 134 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 201 did not count: 191 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 10 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
2000-04-13	To provide a committee amendment.H.R. 6 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-04-11	A bill instituting a Federal fuels tax holiday.S. 2285 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-04-07	To reduce the GOP tax cut by less than 1 percent in FY2001, and 1.8 percent over 5 years, to increase the Pell grant maximum by a total of $400- raising the basic Pell grant from the current $3,300 to $3,700.S.Con.Res. 101 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Raise revenue
2000-04-05	To condition Senate consideration of any tax cut reconciliation legislation on previous enactment of legislation to provide an outpatient prescription drug benefit under the medicare program that is consistent with medicare reform.S.Con.Res. 101 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Raise revenue
2000-03-30	A bill instituting a Federal fuels tax holiday.S. 2285 · 106th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-03-02	An original bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, and for other purposes.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-03-02	To reduce violence in schools.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To provide for achievement standards and assessment of student performance in meeting the standards.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To provide a limitation regarding the policy of prohibiting social promotion.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To increase funding for Federal Pell Grants.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To express the sense of the Senate on improving the learning environment by ensuring safe schools.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To express the sense of the Senate on improving the learning environment by ensuring safe schools.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To express the sense of the Senate on improving the learning environment by ensuring safe schools.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To establish programs to enable States and local educational agencies to place a qualified teacher in every classroom.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-02	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, and for other purposes.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-03-02	To reinstate certain revenue raisers.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Cut taxes
2000-03-02	To eliminate the marriage penalty in the reduction in permitted contributions to education individual retirement accounts.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-03-01	To provide for class size reduction programs.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-01	To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress on the extent and severity of child poverty.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-03-01	To ensure accountability in programs for disadvantaged children and provide funds to turn around failing schools.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-03-01	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the deduction for computer donations to schools and to allow a tax credit for donated computers, and for other purposes.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-03-01	To eliminate the use of education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses and to expand the incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-02-29	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the 2-percent floor on miscellaneous itemized deductions for qualified professional development expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers and to allow a credit against income tax to elementary and secondary school teachers who provide classroom materials.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-02-29	To increase funding for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.S. 1134 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-08-05	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce individual income tax rates, to provide marriage penalty relief, to reduce taxes on savings and investments, to provide estate and gift tax relief, to provide incentives for education savings and health care, and for other purposes.H.R. 2488 · 106th Congress · On the Conference Report	Nay	Raise revenue
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Raise revenue
1999-07-30	To strike the provision expanding tax credit to facilities that produce electricity from poultry waste.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Cut taxes
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax for information technology training expenses paid or incurred by the employer, and for other purposes.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable by providing a full tax deduction for higher education expenses and a tax credit for student education loans.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
1999-07-30	To provide a complete substitute.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	To increase the Federal minimum wage.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	To provide educational opportunities for disadvantaged children, and for other purposes.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	To express the sense of the Senate on the Medicare Reserve Fund.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-30	To provide relief for the marriage tax penalty beginning in the year 2001.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
1999-07-30	To express the sense of the Senate regarding investment in education.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-29	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-29	To return to the taxpayers a portion of the budget surplus that they created with their tax payments.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
1999-07-29	To delay the effective dates of the provisions of, and amendments made by, the Act until the long-term solvency of social security and medicare programs is ensured.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-29	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-07-29	To preserve and protect the surpluses of the social security trust funds by reaffirming the exclusion of receipts and disbursement from the budget, by setting a limit on the debt held by the public, and by amending the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a process to reduce the limit on the debt held by the public.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-28	To provide a complete substitute.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-28	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000.S. 1429 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-07-15	A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.S. 1344 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-06-22	To amend the Public Health Services Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.S. 1233 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-04-15	A bill to extend the tax benefits available with respect to services performed in a combat zone to services performed in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) and certain other areas, and for other purposes.H.R. 1376 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Cut taxes
1999-03-25	To increase the mandatory spending in the Child Care and Development Block Grant by $7.5 billion over five years, the amendment reduces the resolution's tax cut and leaves adequate room in the revenue instructions for targeted tax cuts that help families with the costs of caring for their children, and that such relief would assist all working families with employment related child care expenses, as well as families in which one paren stays home to care for an infant.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Raise revenue
1999-03-25	To fully fund the Class Size Initiative and the Individuals with Disabilities Act with mandatory funds, the amendment reduces the resolution's tax cut by one fifth, frees up $43 billion in discretionary spending within Function 500 (in 2001-2009) for other important education programs, and leaves adequate room in the revenue reconciliation instructions for targeted tax cuts that help those in need and tax breaks for communities to modernize and rebuild crumbling schools.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Raise revenue

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.