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Senate Roll Call 288, 105th Congress · October 31, 1997

A 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. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE FAILED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON H.R. 2646. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

56 yea · 41 nayCloture Motion Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 40 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2646 ↗

Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act

Policy area: Taxation — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Advancing a bill expanding tax-free education accounts reduces revenue and cuts taxes.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (56)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (3)

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