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Thad Cochran

Thad Cochran on Taxes

RepublicanMS

Taxes612 votes · 78.2/100 consistent
Raise revenueCut taxes

1,052 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 612 of them counted toward the score above: 191 toward “Raise revenue” and 421 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 440 did not count: 413 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 27 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.

DateWhat was voted onVotedCounted as
2006-02-02To express the sense of the Senate that protecting middle-class families from the alternative minimum tax should be a higher priority for Congress in 2006 than extending a tax cut that does not expire until the end of 2008.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2006-02-02To strengthen America's military, to repeal the extension of tax rates for capital gains and dividends, to reduce the deficit, and for other purposes.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2006-02-02To support the health needs of our veterans and military personnel and reduce the deficit by making tax rates fairer for all Americans.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2006-02-02To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2006-02-02To provide for necessary beneficiary protections in order to ensure access to coverage under the Medicare part D prescription drug program.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2006-02-02To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Medicare part D prescription drug program.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2006-02-02To provide revenue provisions.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-18An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 202(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2005-11-17To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the phaseout of personal exemptions and the overall limitation on itemized deductions and to modify the income threshold used to calculate the refundable portion of the child tax credit.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-17To allow a refundable tax credit for the energy costs of farmers and ranchers, and to modify the foreign tax credit rules applicable to dual capacity taxpayers.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2005-11-17To accelerate marriage penalty relief for the earned income tax credit, to extend the election to include combat pay in earned income, and to make modifications of effective dates of leasing provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2005-11-17To provide an additional $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, to be used for readjustment counseling, related mental health services, and treatment and rehabilitative services for veterans with mental illness, post-traumatic stress disorder, or substance use disorder.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-11-17To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide extended and additional protection to Medicare beneficiaries who enroll for the Medicare prescription drug benefit during 2006.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-11-17To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a temporary windfall profit tax on crude oil and to use the proceeds of the tax collected to provide a nonrefundable tax credit of $100 for every personal exemption claimed for taxable years beginning in 2005.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-17To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement through 2010.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-11-17To impose a temporary windfall profits tax on crude oil and to use the proceeds of the tax collected to fund programs under the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act of 1981 through a trust fund.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-17To eliminate child poverty.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-11-17To express the sense of the Senate concerning the provision of health care for children before providing tax cuts for the wealthy.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-11-17To express the sense of the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2005-11-17To clarify treatment of outside income and expenses in the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2005-11-17To improve the Federal Trade Commission's ability to protect consumers from price-gouging during energy emergencies, and for other purposes.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2005-11-17To reinstate for millionaires a top individual income tax rate of 39.6 percent, the pre-May 2003 rates of tax on capital gains and dividends, and to repeal the reduction and termination of the phase out of personal exemptions and overall limitation on itemized deductions, until the Federal budget deficit is eliminated.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-17To repeal certain tax benefits relating to oil and gas wells intangible drilling and development costs.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-17To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a temporary windfall profit tax on crude oil and to rebate the tax collected back to the American consumer, and for other purposes.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2005-11-17To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax benefits for areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2005-11-16A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the pension funding rules, and for other purposes.S. 1783 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaDirection not readable
2005-03-17To repeal the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2005-03-17To express the sense of the Senate that the tax cuts assumed in the budget resolution should include the repeal of the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2005-03-17To establish a reserve fund in the event that legislation is passed to provide a 50 percent tax credit to employers that continue to pay the salaries of Guard and Reserve employees who have been called to active duty.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2005-03-14To restore funding for education programs that are cut and reduce debt by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-10-11A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.H.R. 4520 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaCut taxes
2004-10-10A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.H.R. 4520 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2004-09-23An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for working families, and for other purposes.H.R. 1308 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaCut taxes
2004-07-15To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to eliminate the Federal quota and price support programs for tobacco, and to provide assistance to quota holders, tobacco producers, and tobacco-dependent communities.H.R. 4520 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2004-06-17To provide funds for the security and stabilization of Iraq by suspending a portion of the reduction in the highest income tax rate for individual taxpayers.S. 2400 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-05-11A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2004-05-11To strike the international tax provisions that are unrelated to the FSC/ETI repeal and eliminate the phase-in of the deduction for qualified production activities income.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-05-11To strike provisions relating to energy tax incentives.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-05-11To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2004-05-11A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
2004-05-05To provide for a brownfields demonstration program for qualified green building and sustainable design projects, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2004-05-05To provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaCut taxes
2004-05-05To strike the deduction relating to income attributable to United States production activities and the international tax provisions and allow a credit for manufacturing wages, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-05-05To limit the amount of deferred foreign income that can be repatriated at a lower rate.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-05-04To provide trade adjustment assistance for service workers, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2004-05-04To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2004-05-04To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2004-04-29A bill to make permanent the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2004-04-29To extend the grandfather clauses for the term of the moratorium extension.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaCut taxes
2004-04-29To extend the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act for 4 years, and for other purposes.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionNayRaise revenue
2004-04-29To enhance energy conservation and research and development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
2004-04-29To eliminate methyl tertiary butyl ether from the United States fuel supply, to increase production and use of renewable fuel, and to increase the Nation's energy independence.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionNayDirection not readable
2004-04-27To change the definition of Internet access service.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2004-04-26A bill to make permanent the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act.S. 150 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2004-04-08A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 3108 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaDirection not readable
2004-04-07A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
2004-03-24A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the United States, and for other purposes.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
2004-03-11To prohibit future income tax hikes on upper incomes that fail to exempt small businesses that file individual income tax returns as partnerships, sole proprietors, or subchapter S corporations.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2004-03-11To provide responsible restraints on discretionary funding while providing adequate resources for education, veterans, homeland security, and other critical domestic priorities and fully offsetting the cost by closing corporate tax loopholes, improving tax enforcement and reducing tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2004-03-04To protect United States workers from competition of foreign workforces for performance of Federal and State contracts.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2004-03-03To extend and modify the research credit.S. 1637 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2004-01-28A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 3108 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-02To provide funds for the security and stabilization of Iraq by suspending a portion of the reductions in the highest income tax rate for individual taxpayers.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaCut taxes
2003-07-09A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit, and for other purposes.S. 1162 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaRaise revenue
2003-06-05In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 1308 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-23To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.H.R. 2 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaCut taxes
2003-05-15To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.H.R. 2 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2003-05-15To strike the section relating to qualified tax collection contracts.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1996 to close the "janitors insurance" tax loophole.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2003-05-15To improve access to higher education for middle-income families by making resources available to expand the Hope and Lifetime Learning Scholarship Credits and for lower-income families by making resources available to increase the maximum Pell Grant to $4500 and to provide an equal amount for deficit reduction by eliminating the 10 percent dividend tax exclusion for amounts above $500 and eliminating acceleration of the 38.6 percent income tax rate education.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To eliminate the dividend and upper bracket tax cuts, which primarily benefit the wealthy, to provide the additional funds necessary for an adequate medicare prescription drug benefit, including assuring that the benefit is comprehensive, with no gaps or excessive cost-sharing, covers all medicare beneficiaries, provides special help for beneficiaries with low income, and does not undermine employer retirement coverage.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2003-05-15To provide reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To modify the dividend exclusion provision, and for other purposes.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-15To apply the sunset provision to the revenue increase provisions.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2003-05-15To provide a partially refundable tax credit for caregiving related expenses.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15In the nature of a substitute.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To create jobs, provide opportunity, and restore prosperity.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To make the child tax credit acceleration applicable to 2002.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15To encourage the investment of foreign earnings within the United States for productive business investments and job creation.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2003-05-15To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15To provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and the National Guard, and for other purposes.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To provide a a complete substitute.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To further enhance the denial of deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2003-05-15In the nature of a substitute.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To ensure the enactment of a medicare prescription drug benefit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To provide temporary State fiscal relief.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To provide temporary State and local fiscal relief.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-15To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to enhance beneficiary access to quality health care services in rural areas under the medicare program.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-15To accelerate the elimination of the marriage penalty in the earned income credit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15To permanently extend and modify the research and experimentation tax credit and strike the partial exclusion of dividends provision.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To expand the refundability of the child tax credit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15To 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 MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To 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 MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-05-15To 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 AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-15To repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits and to offset the revenue loss.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayRaise revenue
2003-05-15To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2003-05-14To ensure that Social Security surpluses are not raided in order to fund tax cuts on corporate dividends.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayCut taxes
2003-04-09An 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 BillYeaCut taxes
2003-04-09To 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 TableNayCut taxes
2003-03-27A 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 BillYeaCut taxes

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