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Trent Lott

Trent Lott on Taxes

RepublicanMS

Taxes398 votes · 73.3/100 consistent
Raise revenueCut taxes

718 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 398 of them counted toward the score above: 100 toward “Raise revenue” and 298 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 320 did not count: 302 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 18 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
2007-12-12To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a pilot program under which agricultural producers may establish and contribute to tax-exempt farm savings accounts in lieu of obtaining federally subsidized crop insurance or noninsured crop assistance, to provide for contributions to such accounts by the Secretary of Agriculture, to specify the situations in which amounts may be paid to producers from such accounts, and to limit the total amount of such distributions to a producer during a taxable year, and for other purposes.H.R. 2419 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentDid not voteNot a yea/nay
2007-12-12To limit the tax credit for small wind energy property expenditures to property placed in service in connection with a farm or rural small business.H.R. 2419 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
2007-12-06A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 3996 · 110th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2007-12-06A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 3996 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionNayCut taxes
2007-09-27An act to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2007-09-27An act to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionNayDirection not readable
2007-08-02A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On Passage of the BillNayCut taxes
2007-08-02In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2007-08-02To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the 15-year straight-line cost recovery for qualified leasehold improvements and qualified restaurant improvements and to provide a 15-year straight-line cost recovery for certain improvements to retail space.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2007-08-02To increase access to health insurance for low-income children based on actual need, as adjusted for cost-of-living.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2007-08-02To codify the unborn child rule.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To require individuals who are eligible for SCHIP and employer-sponsored coverage to use the employer-sponsored coverage instead of SCHIP.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To ensure that children and pregnant women whose family income exceeds 200 percent of the poverty line and who have access to employer-sponsored coverage receive premium assistance.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To minimize the erosion of private health coverage.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To exclude individuals with alternative minimum tax liability from eligibility for SCHIP coverage.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To prohibit a State from using SCHIP funds to provide coverage for nonpregnant adults until the State first demonstrates that it has adequately covered targeted low-income children who reside in the State.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-02To sunset the increase in the tax on tobacco products on September 30, 2012.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2007-08-02To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reset the rate of tax under the alternative minimum tax at 24 percent.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2007-08-01To provide sufficient funding and incentives to increase the enrollment of uninsured children.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2007-08-01To provide a perfecting amendment.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-01To eliminate the exception for certain States to cover children under SCHIP whose income exceeds 300 percent of the Federal poverty level.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the Motion to TableNayDirection not readable
2007-08-01To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for a 60-vote point of order against legislation that includes a Federal excise tax rate increase which disproportionately affects taxpayers with earned income of less than 200 percent of the Federal poverty level.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2007-08-01To limit the matching rate for coverage other than for low-income children or pregnant women covered through a waiver and to prohibit any new waivers for coverage of adults other than pregnant women.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-08-01To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a Disease Prevention and Treatment Research Trust Fund.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-07-31To standardize the determination of income for purposes of eligibility for SCHIP.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-07-30A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for small businesses, and for other purposes.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2007-07-20To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax.H.R. 2669 · 110th Congress · On the MotionDid not voteNot a yea/nay
2007-07-19A sense of the Senate relative to the adoption tax creditH.R. 2669 · 110th Congress · On the MotionDid not voteDirection not readable
2007-06-21To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for energy advancement and investment, and for other purposes.H.R. 6 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionNayRaise revenue
2007-06-06To save American taxpayers up to $24 billion in the 10 years after passage of this Act, by preventing the earned income tax credit, which is, according to the Congressional Research Service, the largest anti-poverty entitlement program of the Federal Government, from being claimed by Y temporary workers or illegal aliens given status by this Act until they adjust to legal permanent resident status.S. 1348 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
2007-06-06To clarify the application of the earned income tax credit.S. 1348 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2007-04-24To require the study on barriers to innovation to include an examination of the impact of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 on innovation.S. 761 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2007-03-23To extend the 35, 33, 28, and 25 percent income tax rate structure and protect nearly 28,000,000 families and individuals, including small business owners, from having their tax rates increase to 39.6, 36, 31, or 28 percent.S.Con.Res. 21 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentDid not voteNot a yea/nay
2007-03-23To reform the estate tax to avoid subjecting thousands of families, family businesses, and family farms and ranches to the estate tax, and to promote continued economic growth and job creation.S.Con.Res. 21 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayRaise revenue
2007-03-22To provide budget levels to extend through 2012 the production tax credit for electricity produced from renewable resources, the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, and energy tax provisions for energy efficient buildings and power plants.S.Con.Res. 21 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2007-03-21To protect families, family farms and small businesses by raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%, to extend college tuition deduction, to extend the student loan interest deduction, to extend the teacher classroom deduction, to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, to maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and to promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains.S.Con.Res. 21 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2007-01-25To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.H.R. 2 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2007-01-25To express the sense of the Senate that Congress should repeal the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits and eliminate wasteful spending, such as spending on unnecessary tax loopholes, in order to fully offset the cost of such repeal and avoid forcing taxpayers to pay substantially more interest to foreign creditors.H.R. 2 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2006-12-09An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 6111 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2006-12-09An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 6111 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2006-12-09An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 6111 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2006-08-03A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 5970 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2006-06-08A bill to make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.H.R. 8 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2006-05-25To ensure the integrity of the Earned Income Tax Credit program by reducing the potential for fraud and to ensure that aliens who receive an adjustment of this status under this bill meet their obligation to pay back taxes without creating a burden on the American public.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
2006-05-25To limit the application of the Earned Income Tax Credit.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
2006-05-11A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaCut taxes
2006-03-29To provide greater transparency with respect to lobbying activities, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify when organizations described in section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 must register as political committees, and for other purposes.S. 2349 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaDirection not readable
2006-03-28To provide greater transparency with respect to lobbying activities, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify when organizations described in section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 must register as political committees, and for other purposes.S. 2349 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
2006-03-16To restore the discretionary budget for the Department of Agriculture with an offset achieved by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-16To increase funding for Title I grants and reduce debt by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-16To provide an assured stream of funding for veteran's health care that will take into account the annual changes in the veteran's population and inflation to be paid for by restoring the pre-2001 top rate for income over $1 million, closing corporate tax loopholes and delaying tax cuts for the wealthy.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-16To increase funding by $1 billion for various tribal programs and provide necessary additional funding based on recommendations from Indian country, by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-16To restore funding for the civil works programs of the Corps of Engineers, the Federal Water Pollution Control State Revolving Fund, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal conservation programs, and other natural resource needs, through an offset achieved by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-16To increase funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program by $3,318,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, increasing the funds available to carry out that program to the fully authorized level of $5,100,000,000, to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-15To preserve a national intercity passenger rail system by providing adequate funding of $1.45 billion for Amtrak in Fiscal Year 2007 and to fully offset this additional funding by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-14To increase Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-14To support college access and job training by: (1) restoring program cuts slated for vocational education, TRIO, GEAR UP, Perkins Loans, and other student aid programs; (2) increasing investment in student aid programs, including increasing the maximum Pell Grant to $4,500; and (3) restoring cuts slated for job training programs; paid for by closing $6.3 billion in corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2006-03-09To provide greater transparency with respect to lobbying activities, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify when organizations described in section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 must register as political committees, and for other purposes.S. 2349 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
2006-02-14A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2006-02-14A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2006-02-14A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2006-02-14A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2006-02-14A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2006-02-13A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2006-02-13A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2006-02-02A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
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 BillDid not voteNot a yea/nay
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 MotionDid not voteNot a yea/nay
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 MotionDid not voteNot a yea/nay
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 MotionDid not voteNot a yea/nay
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 MotionDid not voteDirection 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 MotionDid not voteDirection 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 MotionDid not voteNot a yea/nay
2005-11-17To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement through 2010.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionDid not voteDirection 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 MotionDid not voteNot a yea/nay
2005-11-17To eliminate child poverty.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionDid not voteDirection 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 MotionDid not voteDirection not readable
2005-11-17To express the sense of the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the MotionDid not voteDirection 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

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