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Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson on Taxes

DemocratNE

Taxes238 votes · 89.8/100 consistent
Raise revenueCut taxes

393 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 238 of them counted toward the score above: 70 toward “Raise revenue” and 168 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 155 did not count: 155 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 0 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
2010-03-03To create additional tax relief for businesses, and for other purposes.H.R. 4213 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-12-16A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to TableNayDirection not readable
2009-12-15A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-12-08A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-12-05A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2009-12-04A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2009-12-03A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2009-11-21A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-08-06To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit for certain home purchases, and to transfer to the Treasury unobligated funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the amount of the reduction in revenue resulting from such credit.H.R. 3435 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-05-13To enhance public knowledge regarding the national debt by requiring the publication of the facts about the national debt on IRS instructions, Federal websites, and in new legislation.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2009-04-02To provide that no additional estate tax relief beyone that which is already assumed in this resolution, which protects over 99.7 percent of estates from the estate tax, shall be allowed under any deficit-neutral reserve fund unless an equal amount of aggregate tax relief is also provided to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year.S.Con.Res. 13 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
2009-04-02To create a deficit-neutral reserve fund for estate tax relief.S.Con.Res. 13 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2009-04-02To ensure that millions of middle-income families do not face an alternative minimum tax increase in 2013 and 2014 and that the budget resolution reflects that result.S.Con.Res. 13 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2009-04-02To protect charitable giving by ensuring that organizations that provide important religious, educational, cultural, health care, and environmental services are not negatively impacted by changes to the Federal income tax deduction for charitable donations.S.Con.Res. 13 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2009-03-26To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Federal income tax deduction for charitable giving.H.R. 1388 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2009-03-26To express the sense of the Senate regarding the Federal income tax charitable giving.H.R. 1388 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2009-02-04To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend for 2009 the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits, and for other purposes.H.R. 1 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-02-03To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for dividends received from controlled foreign corporations for an additional year, and for other purposes.H.R. 1 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-02-03To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest on indebtedness and for State sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles.H.R. 1 · 111th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2009-01-29To clarify that new paperwork and enrollment barriers are not created in the Express Lane Enrollment option and that income may be determined by Express Lane agencies based on State income tax records or returns.H.R. 2 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2009-01-29To provide an above-the-line Federal income tax deduction for health care costs of certain children in an amount comparable to the average federal share of the benefit provided to any non-citizen child for medical assistance or child health assistance.H.R. 2 · 111th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2008-12-11A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide alternative minimum tax relief for individuals for 2008.H.R. 7005 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-10-01A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.H.R. 1424 · 110th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2008-09-23A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaCut taxes
2008-09-23To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-09-23To provide alternative minimum tax relief, and for other purposes.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2008-09-23In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2008-07-30A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.S. 3335 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-07-29A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-06-17A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-06-10A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.H.R. 6049 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-04-10To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the limited continuation of clean energy production incentives and incentives to improve energy efficiency in order to prevent a downturn in these sectors that would result from a lapse in the tax law.H.R. 3221 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2008-04-10To provide a longer extension of the renewable energy production tax credit and to encourage all emerging renewable sources of electricity, and for other purposes.H.R. 3221 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayRaise revenue
2008-04-04To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow use of amended income tax returns to take into account receipt of certain hurricane-related casualty loss grants by disallowing previously taken casualty loss deductions and to waive the deadline on the construction of GO Zone property which is eligible for bonus depreciation.H.R. 3221 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2008-04-01Moving the United States toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, and modernizing our energy infrastructure, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.H.R. 3221 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
2008-03-14To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for providing an above the line Federal income tax deduction for individuals purchasing health insurance outside the workplace.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayRaise revenue
2008-03-13To protect family businesses and farmers without increasing our nation's debt by providing for an estate tax that sets the exemption at $5 million and the rate at 35 percent, with the benefits of the exemption recaptured for estates over $100 million, paid for by closing tax loopholes that allow offshore deferral of compensation and transactions entered into solely for the purpose of avoiding taxation.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2008-03-13To provide certainty to taxpayers by extending expiring tax provisions such as the R&D Tax Credit that helps US companies innovate, combat pay exclusion for our soldiers in the field, the education deduction to make colleges more affordable and the alternative energy incentives to make the environment cleaner through the end of 2009.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayRaise revenue
2008-03-13To put children ahead of millionaires and billionaires by restoring the pre-2001 top income tax rate for people earning over $1 million, and use this revenue to invest in LIHEAP; IDEA; Head Start; Child Care; nutrition; school construction and deficit reduction.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayCut taxes
2008-03-13To repeal the tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayRaise revenue
2008-03-13To add a deficit-neutral reserve fund for repealing the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2008-03-13To reform the estate tax to avoid subjecting thousands of families, family businesses, and family farms and ranches to the estate tax.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaCut taxes
2008-03-13To protect families, family farms and small businesses by extending the income tax rate structure, raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%; to keep education affordable by extending the college tuition deduction; and to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains.S.Con.Res. 70 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayRaise revenue
2008-02-28Moving the United States toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, and modernizing our energy infrastructure, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.H.R. 3221 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaCut taxes
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 AmendmentNayRaise revenue
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 AmendmentNayCut 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 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 MotionYeaRaise revenue
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 MotionYeaDirection 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 MotionYeaDirection 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 BillYeaRaise revenue
2007-08-02In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection 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 AmendmentNayDirection 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 AmendmentNayRaise revenue
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 AmendmentNayDirection 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 AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2007-08-02To minimize the erosion of private health coverage.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2007-08-02To exclude individuals with alternative minimum tax liability from eligibility for SCHIP coverage.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection 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 MotionNayRaise revenue
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 AmendmentNayDirection 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 TableYeaDirection 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 AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2007-07-31To standardize the determination of income for purposes of eligibility for SCHIP.H.R. 976 · 110th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection 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 MotionYeaCut taxes
2007-07-19A sense of the Senate relative to the adoption tax creditH.R. 2669 · 110th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection 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 MotionYeaCut taxes
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 AmendmentYeaDirection 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 AmendmentNayRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaCut taxes
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 AmendmentNayRaise revenue
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 AmendmentNayRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaRaise revenue
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 AmendmentYeaRaise revenue

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