Frank R. Lautenberg on Taxes

DemocratNJ

Taxes359 votes · 73.8/100 consistent

Raise revenueCut taxes

659 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 359 of them counted toward the score above: 218 toward “Raise revenue” and 141 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 300 did not count: 279 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 21 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 provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and the National Guard, and for other purposes.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To provide a a complete substitute.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To further enhance the denial of deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2003-05-15	In the nature of a substitute.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To ensure the enactment of a medicare prescription drug benefit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To provide temporary State fiscal relief.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To provide temporary State and local fiscal relief.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To 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 Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To accelerate the elimination of the marriage penalty in the earned income credit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2003-05-15	To permanently extend and modify the research and experimentation tax credit and strike the partial exclusion of dividends provision.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-05-15	To expand the refundability of the child tax credit.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
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	Yea	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	Yea	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	Nay	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	Yea	Cut taxes
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	Yea	Raise revenue
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	Nay	Raise revenue
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	Yea	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	Nay	Raise revenue
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	Yea	Raise revenue
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	Yea	Raise revenue
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	Yea	Raise revenue
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	Yea	Cut taxes
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	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-21	A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 103(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2001.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Conference Report	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-18	A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 103(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2001.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-18	To provide a substitute.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-07-18	To pay down the debt by striking the tax cuts.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Raise revenue
2000-07-18	To repeal the modification of the installment method.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-17	To make the bill effective upon enactment of a Medicare prescription drug benefit.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-17	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow small business employers a credit against income tax for employee health insurance expenses paid or incurred by the employer.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-17	To amend title XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States to expand coverage under the medicaid program and SCHIP to parents of enrolled children, and for other purposes.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-17	To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-17	To provide a nonrefundable credit against tax for costs of COBRA continuation insurance and allow extended COBRA coverage for qualified retirees, and for other purposes.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-17	To strike the adjustment to the rate brackets and to further adjust the standard deduction.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-17	To provide a complete substitute.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-17	To strike sunset provision; and To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide marriage tax relief by adjusting the standard deduction, 15-percent and 28-percent rate brackets, and earned income credit, and for other purposes; and A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 103(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2001.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-17	A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 103(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2001.H.R. 4810 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-14	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to phaseout the estate and gift taxes over a 10-year period.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-14	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to phaseout the estate and gift taxes over a 10-year period.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-14	To preserve budget surplus funds so that they might be available to extend the life of Social Security and Medicare.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Raise revenue
2000-07-14	To provide tax relief by providing modifications to education individual retirement accounts.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-14	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction and provide a long-term care credit, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-14	To protect and provide resources for the Social Security System, to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the "motherhood penalty", increase the widow's and widower's benefit and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-14	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction, to increase, expand, and simplify the child and dependent care tax credit, to expand the adoption credit for special needs children, to provide incentives for employer-provided child care, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-14	To provide for the designation of renewal communities and to provide tax incentives relating to such communities, to provide a tax credit to taxpayers investing in entities seeking to provide capital to create new markets in low-income communities, and to provide for the establishment of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-14	To establish a National Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States to provide for the development of decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-13	To repeal the increase in tax on Social Security benefits.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-13	To amend the internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction, to provide a refundable credit to certain individuals for elective deferrals and IRA contributions, and to provide an incentive to small businesses to establish and maintain qualified pension plans, to amend the Social Security Act to provide each American child with a KidSave Account, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-13	To provide additional budget resources for a medicare prescription drug benefit program.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-07-13	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communication services.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-13	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction and expand education initiatives, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-13	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily reduce the Federal fuels tax to zero.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2000-07-13	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction, to make higher education more affordable, to provide incentives for advanced teacher certification, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-13	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a permanent extension of the credit for increasing research activities.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-13	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit exemption and the qualified family-owned business interest deduction, and for other purposes.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-07-11	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to phaseout the estate and gift taxes over a 10-year period.H.R. 8 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2000-06-29	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require 527 organizations to disclose their political activities.H.R. 4762 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-06-08	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. 2549 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-04-27	To provide a committee amendment.H.R. 6 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2000-04-13	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the marriage penalty by providing that the income tax rate bracket amounts, and the amount of the standard deduction, for joint returns shall be twice the amounts applicable to unmarried individuals.H.R. 6 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
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	Yea	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	Yea	Raise revenue
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

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.