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Senate Roll Call 539, 105th Congress · July 28, 1998

To terminate the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. — (THREE FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF HUTCHINSON AMENDMENT NO. 3249, TO TERMINATE THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

49 yea · 49 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 41 nay
Republican45 yea · 7 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2312 ↗

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Waiving points of order to consider terminating the tax code advances a tax-cutting measure.

    Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Terminating the tax code affects revenue policy rather than federal spending directly.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (49)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (2)

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