Mel Martinez on Taxes

RepublicanFL

Taxes81 votes · 73.8/100 consistent

Raise revenueCut taxes

133 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 81 of them counted toward the score above: 19 toward “Raise revenue” and 62 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 52 did not count: 51 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 1 was one 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
2006-02-13	A 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 Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2006-02-13	A 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 Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-02-02	A 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 Bill	Yea	Cut taxes
2006-02-02	To 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 Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-02-02	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2006-02-02	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2006-02-02	To 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 Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2006-02-02	To 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 Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2006-02-02	To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Medicare part D prescription drug program.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-02-02	To provide revenue provisions.H.R. 4297 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-18	An 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 Bill	Yea	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement through 2010.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To eliminate child poverty.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To express the sense of the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To clarify treatment of outside income and expenses in the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To repeal certain tax benefits relating to oil and gas wells intangible drilling and development costs.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Cut taxes
2005-11-17	To 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 Motion	Nay	Raise revenue
2005-11-16	A 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 Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-03-17	To repeal the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2005-03-17	To 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 Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-03-17	To 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 Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2005-03-14	To restore funding for education programs that are cut and reduce debt by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	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.